Streptobacillus moniliformis Bacteremia in a Pet Shop Employee: Case Report and Literature Review

A 39-year-old pet shop employee who sustained a bite from one of his store’s rats developed fever and arthritis. Streptobacillus moniliformis was cultured from the patient’s blood, confirming a diagnosis of rat-bite fever. Treatment with standard antibiotics was successful. Although rat-bite fever i...

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Autores principales: Suzuki, Kiyozumi, Hirai, Yuji, Morita, Fujiko, Nakamura, Ayako, Uehara, Yuki, Naito, Toshio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5510459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28730157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx038
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author Suzuki, Kiyozumi
Hirai, Yuji
Morita, Fujiko
Nakamura, Ayako
Uehara, Yuki
Naito, Toshio
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Hirai, Yuji
Morita, Fujiko
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description A 39-year-old pet shop employee who sustained a bite from one of his store’s rats developed fever and arthritis. Streptobacillus moniliformis was cultured from the patient’s blood, confirming a diagnosis of rat-bite fever. Treatment with standard antibiotics was successful. Although rat-bite fever is commonly considered a zoonosis transmitted by wild or laboratory rats, our case emphasizes that it may be transmitted by pet animals as well.
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spelling pubmed-55104592017-07-20 Streptobacillus moniliformis Bacteremia in a Pet Shop Employee: Case Report and Literature Review Suzuki, Kiyozumi Hirai, Yuji Morita, Fujiko Nakamura, Ayako Uehara, Yuki Naito, Toshio Open Forum Infect Dis ID Case A 39-year-old pet shop employee who sustained a bite from one of his store’s rats developed fever and arthritis. Streptobacillus moniliformis was cultured from the patient’s blood, confirming a diagnosis of rat-bite fever. Treatment with standard antibiotics was successful. Although rat-bite fever is commonly considered a zoonosis transmitted by wild or laboratory rats, our case emphasizes that it may be transmitted by pet animals as well. Oxford University Press 2017-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5510459/ /pubmed/28730157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx038 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Streptobacillus moniliformis Bacteremia in a Pet Shop Employee: Case Report and Literature Review
title Streptobacillus moniliformis Bacteremia in a Pet Shop Employee: Case Report and Literature Review
title_full Streptobacillus moniliformis Bacteremia in a Pet Shop Employee: Case Report and Literature Review
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title_short Streptobacillus moniliformis Bacteremia in a Pet Shop Employee: Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort streptobacillus moniliformis bacteremia in a pet shop employee: case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5510459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28730157
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx038
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