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Association between oropharyngeal carriage of Kingella kingae and osteoarticular infection in young children: a case-control study

Published inCanadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 189, no. 35, p. E1107-E1111
Publication date2017
Abstract

Kingella kingae has been increasingly identified in patients with osteoarticular infections. Our main objective was to evaluate the association between carriage of K. kingae in the oropharynx of preschool children and osteoarticular infections.

Keywords
  • Arthritis
  • Infectious/diagnostic imaging/microbiology
  • Canada
  • Carrier State/microbiology
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Child
  • Preschool
  • Female
  • Hospitals
  • Pediatric
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Kingella kingae/isolation & purification
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Neisseriaceae Infections/diagnosis/epidemiology
  • Odds Ratio
  • Oropharynx/microbiology
  • Osteomyelitis/diagnostic imaging/microbiology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Prospective Studies
  • Switzerland
Citation (ISO format)
GRAVEL, Jocelyn et al. Association between oropharyngeal carriage of Kingella kingae and osteoarticular infection in young children: a case-control study. In: Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2017, vol. 189, n° 35, p. E1107–E1111. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170127
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