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A rare cause of vertebral osteomyelitis: the first case report of rat-bite feve...
Pena,Eduarda; Jordão,Sofia; Simões,Maria João; Oleastro,Mónica; Neves,IsabelAbstract Rat-bite fever is a rarely diagnosed illness caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis . Although this disease is distributed worldwide, there have been few cases reported in Europe. Here, we report a case of vertebral osteomyelitis and sternoclavicular septic arthritis caused by S. moniliformis in a Portuguese patient previously bitten by a rat. Laboratory diagnosis was performed using molecular identifi...
Actinomycosis, a lurking threat: a report of 11 cases and literature review
Paulo,Catarina Oliveira; Jordão,Sofia; Correia-Pinto,João; Ferreira,Fernando; Neves,IsabelAbstract Actinomycosis remains characteristically uncommon, but is still an important cause of morbidity. Its clinical presentation is usually indolent and chronic as slow growing masses that can evolve into fistulae, and for that reason are frequently underdiagnosed. Actinomyces spp is often disregarded clinically and is classified as a colonizing microorganism. In this review of literature, we concomitantly p...