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. 2003 Sep;62(9):805–806. doi: 10.1136/ard.62.9.805

Suppurative polyarthritis following a rat bite

B Thong 1, T Barkham 1
PMCID: PMC1754676  PMID: 12922949

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Figure 1.

Figure 1

Synovitis of the right ankle and left midtarsal joint with the site of the rat bite (circled), which has healed.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Gram stain of the colonies showing filamentous cells with many bulbous swellings typical of Streptobacillus moniliformis.


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