RAT BITE FEVER: COMPLICATIONS, TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL NURSE ROLE IN COLLABORATION WITH DOCTORS FOR PATIENT SAFETY | ||
| Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology | ||
| Volume 52, Issue 2, August 2022, Pages 207-214 PDF (762.56 K) | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2022.257333 | ||
| Authors | ||
| TOSSON A. MORSY1; AHMAD KHALID AHMAD2; HAITHAM A. El HADIDY3; NASHWA ALSAYED IBRAHIM MOHAMED4 | ||
| 1Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo 11566 | ||
| 2Consultant of Clinical Pathology ,Military Medical Academy, Cairo 11291 | ||
| 3Consultant of Public Health, Military Medical Academy, Cairo 11291 | ||
| 4Consultant of Nursing & Hospital Administration, Military Medical Academy, Cairo 11291 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Rat-bite fever, also known as streptobacillosis, spirillary fever, bogger, and epidemic arthritic erythema, is a zoonotic illness that manifests with acute relapsing fever with migratory polyartthralgia. It is a zoonotic infectious disease from rodents to man either via rodent urine or mucosal secretions or even nasal, fecal, or ocular secretions of an infected rodent. It was reported in Japan, the United States, Europe, Australia, and Africa caused by two different bacteria: Streptobacillus moniliformis, the only bacteria that causes RBF in North America (streptobacillary RBF) Spirillum minus, common in Asia (spirillary RBF, or sodoku). Without treatment, rat bite fever can lead to severe complications; pneumonia, meningitis, heart infection (myocarditis, endocarditis) and blood sepsis, led to death 7-10%. When treated promptly, prognosis is very good. Tetanus and rabies immunization is a must, although rat bite rarely causes rabies. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Rat; Fever; Bacteria; Complications; Treatment; Nursing role | ||
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