title: Shell vial cell culture as a tool for Streptobacillus moniliformis "resuscitation".
abstract: Streptobacillus moniliformis is a fastidious growing Gram-negative bacillus responsible of rat-bite fever. We describe here the first report of this disease in la Réunion and the first isolation using shell vial cell culture from a blood culture bottle with a bacterium suspected to be dead.
authors.affiliation: Unite de Recherche sur le Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, UMR 6236, Institut Federatif de Recherche 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France. sloridant@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: Severine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Loridant
authors.forename: Marie-Christine
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Jaffar-Bandjee
authors.forename: Bernard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: La Scola
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004199:Disease Vectors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011906:Rat-Bite Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D051381:Rats; D017508:Reunion / Q000453:epidemiology; D013288:Streptobacillus / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology