1. A disease caused by the bacterium Streptobacillus moniliformis and characterized by skin inflammation, back and joint pains, headache, and vomiting.

2. Frank Fox of the Fachhochschule Trier in Trier, Germany took 3rd place with this image of a living specimen of Melosira moniliformis.

3. Rat-bite fever is an acute febrile illness caused by two different organisms, Streptobacillus moniliformis and Spirillum minus.

4. Any of various gram-negative, rod-shaped, often pathogenic bacteria of the genus Streptobacillus, occurring in chains, especially S. moniliformis, which causes a type of rat-bite fever.

5. Rat - bite fever is an acute illness caused by two different organisms , Streptobacillus moniliformis and Spirillum minus.