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Emerg Infect Dis
; 27(12): 3198-3199, 2021.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34808096
RESUMO
Streptobacillus moniliformis is a pleomorphic, fastidious gram-negative bacillus that colonizes rodent respiratory tracts and causes rat-bite fever in humans. Rat-bite fever is associated with septic arthritis, usually monoarticular or pauciarticular. We report a rare case of polyarticular septic arthritis caused by S. moniliformis; the disease was initially misdiagnosed as inflammatory arthritis.