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

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

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, an...

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Main Authors: Tobias Eisenberg, Simon Poignant, Youenn Jouan, Ahmad Fawzy, Werner Nicklas, Christa Ewers, Laurent Mereghetti, Antoine Guillon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-04-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
acute tetraplegia
rat bite fever
snake keeper
transmission
Streptobacillus moniliformis
bacteria
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/23/4/16-1987_article

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