Fatal Rat-Bite Fever --- Florida and Washington, 2003
6 Jan 2005 ... Rat-bite fever (RBF) is a rare, systemic illness caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis. RBF has a case-fatality rate of ...
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5351a2.htm...
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Rat-Bite Fever: Spirochetes: Merck Manual Professional
Rat-bite fever is caused by either Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minus. Symptoms of the streptobacillary form include fever, rash, ...
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec14/ch174/ch174e.html...
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Rat Bite Fever and Streptobacillus moniliformis
Rat bite fever, caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis, is a systemic illness classically characterized by fever, rigors, and polyarthralgias. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=17...
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Rat-Bite Fever -- New Mexico, 1996
Rat-bite fever (RBF) is a systemic bacterial illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis that can be acquired through the bite or scratch of a rodent or ...
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00051368.htm...
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Streptobacillus moniliformis septic arthritis: a clinical entity ...
Rat bites were known to result in human diseases for more than 2000 years. ..... Rat bite fever (Streptobacillus moniliformis) with septicemia in a child. ...
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=19...
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[Fatal rat bites] [Harefuah. 1999] - PubMed Result
Domestic dogs and cats cause most animal bites. Bites of a house rat usually cause ... There is little information about death due to house rat bites. ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10955069...
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Fever and a rat bite
A diagnosis of rat bite fever was made and the patient was treated with 14 days of amoxicillin/clavulinic acid. He became afebrile and was discharged 48 h ...
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Rat bites: fifty cases.
A prospective study of 50 patients with uninfected rat bite wounds was undertaken to determine the natural incidence of wound infection without prophylactic ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3970397...
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Rat bites and leprosy.
Cooles P, Paul H. Rat bites and diabetic foot in the West Indies. BMJ. 1989 Apr 1;298(6677):868–868. [PubMed]; Sabin TD. Neurologic features of lepromatous ...
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Identification of risk factors in rat bite inciden...[Pediatrics ...
OBJECTIVE: This study sought to assess the occurrence of rat bites within an urban population and examine the demographic characteristics to determine ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10469818...
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