Rat bite fever misdiagnosed as Rocky Mountain spotted fever

A patient who had been exposed to ticks and who had also been bitten by a laboratory rat developed fever, headache, and a rash. He was treated with chloramphenicol for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and recovered. Blood cultures, however, grew Streptobacillus moniliformis, a causative agent of rat bi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Southern medical journal (Birmingham, Ala.) Ala.), 1979-05, Vol.72 (5), p.607-608
Hauptverfasser:	Portnoy, B L, Satterwhite, T K, Dyckman, J D
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Diagnosis, Differential Humans Male Rat-Bite Fever - diagnosis Rat-Bite Fever - microbiology Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever - diagnosis Streptobacillus - isolation & purification
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Zusammenfassung:	A patient who had been exposed to ticks and who had also been bitten by a laboratory rat developed fever, headache, and a rash. He was treated with chloramphenicol for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and recovered. Blood cultures, however, grew Streptobacillus moniliformis, a causative agent of rat bite fever. The case report illustrates the clinical similarities between rat bite fever and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
ISSN:	0038-4348
DOI:	10.1097/00007611-197905000-00028