Table 2.

Demographic, clinical, and diagnostic details, treatment, and outcome compared among the four reported patients with Streptobacillus notomytis infection

	Fukushima et al. 2018 [4]	Ogawa et al. 2018 [6]	Kusuda et al. 2019 [5]	The present case 2020
Age (years)	67	94	67	72
Gender	Female	Female	Male	Female
City, country	Okinawa, Japan	Nara, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Bangkok, Thailand
Comorbidities	Hypertension Dyslipidemia	None	Hypertension	Cervical spondylosis
Clinical manifestations	Fever Rash Polyarthritis	Fever Oligoarthritis	Fever Rash Polyarthritis	Fever Polyarthritis Meningitis Hepatitis Spondylodiscitis
Positive specimens	Blood Pus	Synovial fluid Intraoral swab from rats in the patient’s house	Blood	Synovial fluid Tissue biopsy from disc L4–L5
Identification technique	Culture and PCR	Culture and PCR	Culture and PCR	PCR
Treatment	Ampicillin 16 days	Ceftriaxone 15 days Ampicillin/sulbactam 14 days Minocycline	Meropenem 14 days	Ceftriaxone 30 days Amoxicillin 12 weeks
Outcome	Complete recovery	Died from Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia	Complete recovery	Complete recovery