Spirillum Minus Infection Acquired from an Indian Squirrel (Sciurus SP.)

Spontaneous Infection of Guinea-Pigs with a Spirillum, Presumably Spirillum Minus Carter, 1887

McCluskie (1930), Robertson (1930), Francis (1936), and Knowles, Das Gupta and Sen (1936) have noted the occurrence of Spirillum minus in the naturally-infected mouse, Mus musculus. The last-named workers cited an incident in which a wrong diagnosis of rat-bite fever was established on the basis of discovery of spirilla in a white mouse inoculated with the blood of a patient suffering from prol...

Natural Spirillum Minus Infection in White Mice

Experiments on the Spirillum of Rat-Bite Fever

Knowles, Das Gupta and Sen (1936) have observed that 15 of a batch of 31 white mice (Mus muscuius) showed spontaneous infection with Spirillum minus. These mice were caged in cages of narrow meshed iron-netting. No rat could possibly get at the mice to bite them. On looking through the literature it is found that other workers such as Robertson (1930), McCluskie (1930), and lately Francis (1936...

A Note on Spirillum Minus (Carter), the Causative Organism of Rat-Bite Fever

Detection of squirrel poxvirus by nested and real-time PCR from red (Sciurus vulgaris) and grey (Sciurus carolinensis) squirrels

BACKGROUND Squirrel poxvirus (SQPV) is highly pathogenic to red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris), and is a significant contributing factor to the local extinction of the species in most parts of England and Wales, where infection is endemic in Eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) populations. Although a nested PCR assay has been used successfully to study the epidemiology of SQPV, samples h...