The Brief Case: Rat Bite Fever from a Kiss

Kyle G Rodino^#¹, Nathaniel E Miller^#², Kirsten D Pethan³, Daniel C DeSimone^{4

5}, Audrey N Schuetz^{6

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
³ Department of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Schuetz.Audrey@mayo.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

Case Reports

Kyle G Rodino et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2019.

. 2019 Dec 23;58(1):e00677-19.

doi: 10.1128/JCM.00677-19. Print 2019 Dec 23.

Kyle G Rodino^#¹, Nathaniel E Miller^#², Kirsten D Pethan³, Daniel C DeSimone^{4

5}, Audrey N Schuetz^{6

4}

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Family Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
³ Department of Hospital Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁶ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA Schuetz.Audrey@mayo.edu.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: Streptobacillus; rat bite fever.

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