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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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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