spirillary rat-bite fever
MONDO:0020532Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names spirillary rat-bite fever yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Spirillary rat-bite fever (RBF), also known as Sodoku (Japanese for so: rat and doku: poison), is caused by the gram-negative bacillus Spirillum minus and is transmitted to humans through the bites and scratches of rats. The disease is mostly present in Asia.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0020532), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: spirillary rat-bite fever
- Also called
- sodokusodoku diseaseSpirillary fever