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

Eisenberg, Tobias; Poignant, Simon; Jouan, Youenn; Fawzy, Ahmad; Nicklas, Werner; Ewers, Christa; Mereghetti, Laurent; Guillon, Antoine

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

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Apr 2017
By Eisenberg, Tobias ; Poignant, Simon ; Jouan, Youenn ; ...

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Emerg Infect Dis
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Eisenberg, Tobias ; Poignant, Simon ; Jouan, Youenn ; Fawzy, Ahmad ; Nicklas, Werner ; Ewers, Christa ; Mereghetti, Laurent ; Guillon, Antoine
Description:

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, and identified diagnostic difficulties concerning infection with this microorganism.
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Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination Animal Husbandry Animals Anti-Bacterial Agents Humans Male Middle Aged Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques Quadriplegia Rat-Bite Fever Rats Snakes Streptobacillus
Source:

Emerg Infect Dis. 23(4):719-721.
Pubmed ID:

28322713
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC5367424
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Journal Article
Place as Subject:

France
Volume:

23
Issue:

4
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
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urn:sha256:1cf13a9268d6ab34b2348f5a4b8347dcbdd8265f1db07811051643c07df00299
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