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, and identified diagnostic difficulties concerning infection with this microorganism.
Tobias
T
Eisenberg
Simon
S
Poignant
Youenn
Y
Jouan
Ahmad
A
Fawzy
Werner
W
Nicklas
Christa
C
Ewers
Laurent
L
Mereghetti
Antoine
A
Guillon
D019980:Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D021141:Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D011906:Rat-Bite Fever / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D051381:Rats; D012911:Snakes; D013288:Streptobacillus / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D019980:Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination
France; PCR; Streptobacillus moniliformis; acute tetraplegia; bacteria; multilocus variant analysis; rat bite fever; rats; reptiles; snake keeper; snakes; species specificity; transmission; variable number tandem repeat analysis; zoonoses