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Most common isolate from dog and cat bites
Pasteurella multocida
General Characteristics:

Pasteurella
Gram (-), coccobacilli
non-motile
toxin producing
requires cysteine to culture
General Characteristics:

Capnocytophaga canimorsus
--Gram (-) fusiform bacilli (toothpick)
--requires CO2 for growth
--Produces a substance that modifies PMN cell chemotactic activity
Common Anaerobes in animal bite wounds
Bacteroides (think first)
Actinomyces
Fusobacteria
Gram (-) bacilli or coccobacilli
polysaccharide capsule
Produces SOD (can survive in O2)
Bacteroides sp.
Gram (+) bacilli
Filamentous
Actinomyces sp.
Anaerobic
Gram (-) bacilli
pleomorphic
occasionally only species involved (i.e. osteomyelitis)
Fusobacterium sp.
Human bite infxn
Gram (-) pleomorphic bacillus or coccobacillus
produces bleach like odor
Oxidase (+);Catalase(-); Urease (-); Indole(-)
Facultative anaerobe
Immune compromised
Eikenella corrodens
HACEK group
Peptostreptococci
Anaerobic Gram (+) cocci
Human bites
inherant antibiotic resistant
B. fragilis required media
BBE
(Bacteroides Bile Esculin)
Cat Bite/Scratch ---First thought
Bartonella henselae
Unilateral regional lymphadenitis in a child
Bartonella henselae
Cat-scratch fever
Stain to dx Bartonella henselae
Warthin-Starry silver stain

Do NOT culture
Bartonella henselae

Characteristics?
Aerobic
pleomorphic, short gram (-) rod
Causative agents of Rat bite fever
Streptobacillus moniliformis

Spirillum minor
Streptobacillus moniliformis
aerobic, Gram (-) bacillus
Forms chains like strep
Pleomorphic
Culture medium requirements for Streptobacillus moniliformis
15% blood
20% serum
5% Ascitic fluid
Spirillum minor
Spiral Shaped
Darting motility
Cannot Culture
Spiral Shaped
Darting motility
Spirillum minor
How to dx Streptobacillus moniliformis
BC
Dx of Spirillum minor
dark field preperations
How to tell based on incubation time, what the causative organism is causing Rat bite fever
Streptobacillus moniliformis <10 days

Spirillum minor 2 weeks
Rabies Virus
Rhabdovirus
(-)ssRNA
Bullet shaped
Dx of Rabies
Postmortem:
presence of Negri Bodies in cytoplasm
Rat bite fever w/
headache, myalgias, arthralgia, arthritis
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Rat bite fever w/ lymphagitis, lymphadenopathy
Spirillum minus
Rabies viral replication occurs where
DRG
and muscle at site of bite
Rabies Ig and active vaccine given in two sites on day 0. When are the next doses of the active vaccine given.
3, 7, 14, 28