Acute Tetraplegia Caused by Rat Bite Fever in Snake Keeper and Transmission of Streptobacillus moniliformis

We report acute tetraplegia caused by rat bite fever in a 59-year old man (snake keeper) and transmission of Streptobacillus moniliformis. We found an identical characteristic bacterial pattern in rat and human samples, which validated genotyping-based evidence for infection with the same strain, an...

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Autores principales: Eisenberg, Tobias, Poignant, Simon, Jouan, Youenn, Fawzy, Ahmad, Nicklas, Werner, Ewers, Christa, Mereghetti, Laurent, Guillon, Antoine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017
Materias:
Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28322713
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2304.161987

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367424/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28322713
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2304.161987

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