title: Rat bite fever: fever, arthritis, and rash in a 4-year-old boy.
abstract: Rat bite fever is a rare but potentially fatal Gram-negative infection that predominantly affects populations with exposure to rats, notably children. The clinical presentation is nonspecific and requires a high threshold of suspicion to elicit a history of rat exposure. We report here a case of a child whose diagnosis was made retrospectively but with good outcome.
authors: Department of Dermatology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah 84132, USA. bethany.lewis@hsc.utah.edu
authors: Bethany K H
authors: BK
authors: Lewis
authors: Sheryll
authors: S
authors: Vanderhooft
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000382:microbiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005076:Exanthema / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011906:Rat-Bite Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D051381:Rats; D013288:Streptobacillus / Q000302:isolation & purification*