A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal

Rat-bite fever is a rarely diagnosed illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis. Although this disease is distributed worldwide, there have been few cases reported in Europe. Here, we report a case of vertebral osteomyelitis and sternoclavicular septic arthritis caused by S. moniliformis in a Po...

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Autores principales: Pena, Eduarda, Jordão, Sofia, Simões, Maria João, Oleastro, Mónica, Neves, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7083378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31859955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0328-2019
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author Pena, Eduarda
Jordão, Sofia
Simões, Maria João
Oleastro, Mónica
Neves, Isabel
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Jordão, Sofia
Simões, Maria João
Oleastro, Mónica
Neves, Isabel
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description Rat-bite fever is a rarely diagnosed illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis. Although this disease is distributed worldwide, there have been few cases reported in Europe. Here, we report a case of vertebral osteomyelitis and sternoclavicular septic arthritis caused by S. moniliformis in a Portuguese patient previously bitten by a rat. Laboratory diagnosis was performed using molecular identification. This is the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal. The case described here serves as a reminder for physicians to consider this diagnosis in patients who have developed fever syndromes after being in contact with rodents.
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spelling pubmed-70833782020-03-25 A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal Pena, Eduarda Jordão, Sofia Simões, Maria João Oleastro, Mónica Neves, Isabel Rev Soc Bras Med Trop Case Report Rat-bite fever is a rarely diagnosed illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis. Although this disease is distributed worldwide, there have been few cases reported in Europe. Here, we report a case of vertebral osteomyelitis and sternoclavicular septic arthritis caused by S. moniliformis in a Portuguese patient previously bitten by a rat. Laboratory diagnosis was performed using molecular identification. This is the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal. The case described here serves as a reminder for physicians to consider this diagnosis in patients who have developed fever syndromes after being in contact with rodents. Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical - SBMT 2019-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7083378/ /pubmed/31859955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0328-2019 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
spellingShingle Case Report
Pena, Eduarda
Jordão, Sofia
Simões, Maria João
Oleastro, Mónica
Neves, Isabel
A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal
title A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal
title_full A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal
title_fullStr A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal
title_full_unstemmed A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal
title_short A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in Portugal
title_sort rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite fever in portugal
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7083378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31859955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0037-8682-0328-2019
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