A spinal epidural abscess due to Streptobacillus moniliformis infection following a rat bite: case report
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Rat Bite Fever Due to Streptobacillus Moniliformis
PRESENT CASE. The patient, D. G., born on 1st January, 1929, is the second child in a family of three sons and one daughter of well-to-do parents. There is nothing of importance in the family history or the previous history of the boy. Before his present illness he was in good health, was about 5 feet 9j inches in height, and weighed, in his clothes, about 101 stone. The family are city dweller...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1547-5654
DOI: 10.3171/2016.12.spine161042