Rat bite fever with osteomyelitis and discitis: case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Rat bite fever (RBF) is a rare systemic febrile illness transmitted by rats. Streptobacillus moniliformis is a pleomorphic Gram-negative bacillus which is the usual etiologic organism for rat bite fever in the United States. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of rat bite fever com...

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Autores principales: Adams, Steven H., Mahapatra, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06172-x
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description BACKGROUND: Rat bite fever (RBF) is a rare systemic febrile illness transmitted by rats. Streptobacillus moniliformis is a pleomorphic Gram-negative bacillus which is the usual etiologic organism for rat bite fever in the United States. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of rat bite fever complicated by vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis. The patient revealed an exposure history of being bitten by pet rats. The patient’s symptoms dramatically improved with a six-week course of cephalexin therapy. CONCLUSIONS: It is important to obtain a thorough zoonotic exposure history and maintain rat bite fever in the differential when considering potential causes of discitis and osteomyelitis.
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spelling pubmed-81530952021-05-28 Rat bite fever with osteomyelitis and discitis: case report and literature review Adams, Steven H. Mahapatra, Rahul BMC Infect Dis Case Report BACKGROUND: Rat bite fever (RBF) is a rare systemic febrile illness transmitted by rats. Streptobacillus moniliformis is a pleomorphic Gram-negative bacillus which is the usual etiologic organism for rat bite fever in the United States. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of rat bite fever complicated by vertebral osteomyelitis and discitis. The patient revealed an exposure history of being bitten by pet rats. The patient’s symptoms dramatically improved with a six-week course of cephalexin therapy. CONCLUSIONS: It is important to obtain a thorough zoonotic exposure history and maintain rat bite fever in the differential when considering potential causes of discitis and osteomyelitis. BioMed Central 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8153095/ /pubmed/34039283 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06172-x Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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title_fullStr Rat bite fever with osteomyelitis and discitis: case report and literature review
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title_short Rat bite fever with osteomyelitis and discitis: case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039283
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-021-06172-x
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