Rat bite fever without fever

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 894-896

  Stehle, P ^a   Dubuis, O ^a   So, A ^a   Dudler, J ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEFLAZACORT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BITE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE COURSE; FEVER; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETHALITY; MALE; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PETECHIA; POLYARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RASH; RAT BITE FEVER; RIGOR; SPIRILLUM; SPIRILLUM MINUS; STREPTOBACILLUS; STREPTOBACILLUS MONILIFORMIS;

AGED; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; BITES AND STINGS; HUMANS; MALE; RAT-BITE FEVER; RATS; STREPTOBACILLUS; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 0041885048     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.62.9.894     Document Type: Article

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