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Volume 23, Number 4—April 2017
Research Letter

Acute Tetraplegia Caused by Rat Bite Fever in Snake Keeper and Transmission of Streptobacillus moniliformis

Tobias Eisenberg1, Simon Poignant1, Youenn Jouan, Ahmad Fawzy, Werner Nicklas, Christa Ewers, Laurent Mereghetti, and Antoine GuillonComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Hessian State Laboratory, Giessen, Germany (T. Eisenberg, A. Fawzy); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Tours, Tours, France (S. Poignant, Y. Jouan, L. Mereghetti, A. Guillon); Université François Rabelais, Tours (S. Poignant, Y. Jouan, L. Mereghetti, A. Guillon); Cairo University, Giza, Egypt (A. Fawzy); Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen (A. Fawzy, C. Ewers); German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany (W. Nicklas)

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Fat-saturated, contrast-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance image of the spine of a 59-year-old man (snake keeper) with rat bite fever. Sagittal view of the cervical spine shows spondylodiscitis (*) and an epidural absess with C5–T1 compression (brace). Preexisting spinal degeneration was observed and was probably a promoting factor for spinal compression.

Figure. Fat-saturated, contrast-enhanced T1-weighted magnetic resonance image of the spine of a 59-year-old man (snake keeper) with rat bite fever. Sagittal view of the cervical spine shows spondylodiscitis (*) and an epidural absess with C5–T1 compression (brace). Preexisting spinal degeneration was observed and was probably a promoting factor for spinal compression.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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