Spontaneous rat bite fever in non-human primates: A review of two cases

Journal of Medical Primatology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 345-349

  Valverde, C R ^a   Lowenstine, L J ^b   Young, C E ^c   Tarara, R P ^c   Roberts, J A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Callicebus sp.; Macaca mullata; Monkey; Rat bite fever; Streptobacillus moniliforms

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFALOTIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL HEMISUCCINATE; CHLORAMPHENICOL PALMITATE; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; STREPTOMYCIN; SURFACE WATER; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INGESTION; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT BITE FEVER; RHESUS MONKEY; SPIRILLUM; STREPTOBACILLUS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; WATER CONTAMINATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; MACACA MULATTA; MONKEY DISEASES; RAT-BITE FEVER; STREPTOBACILLUS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CALLICEBUS SP.; CYRILLA; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; MONILIFORMIS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; SPIRILLUM; STREPTOBACILLUS; STREPTOBACILLUS MONILIFORMIS;

EID: 0036903805     PISSN: 00472565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0684.2002.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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