Achilles Tendon Rupture After Abscess from a Cat Bite - A Rare Case

The authors present a case, a 84 year-old female patient, that entered the Emergency Room (ER) due to a cat bite on the posterior side of the distal third of the leg that led to a rupture of the Achilles tendon.The patient was submitted to surgical treatment and microbiological isolation of Morganella Morgani.After 7 days of intravenous antibiotic therapy with clinical and analytical improvements she got discharged with oral antibiotic therapy.It's a rare cause of injury of the Achilles tendon.Animal bites are a common cause of ER events that, many times, lead to infections and damage to important anatomic structures, this means that these should not be neglected.The target of this case report is to present a rare occurrence of injury to the Achilles tendon, after infection from a car bite.