Kingella kingae infections in paediatric patients: 5 cases of septic arthritis, osteomyelitis and bacteraemia

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field Kingella kingae is a Gram-negative rod most often recognized as 1 of the organisms causing septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in children. Infection caused by K. kingae had not been diagnos...

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Published in:Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Main Authors: Birgisson, H, Steingrimsson, O, Gudnason, T
Other Authors: Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Informa Healthcare 2010
Subjects:
Arthritis
Infectious
Bacteremia
Child
Preschool
Female
Humans
Iceland
Infant
Kingella kingae
Male
Neisseriaceae Infections
Osteomyelitis
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2336/111197
https://doi.org/10.3109/00365549709011861
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Summary:To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field Kingella kingae is a Gram-negative rod most often recognized as 1 of the organisms causing septic arthritis and osteomyelitis in children. Infection caused by K. kingae had not been diagnosed in Iceland until 5 cases were diagnosed at the Paediatric Department at the University Hospital of Iceland over a 1 year period. In this report we describe these 5 children with invasive infection caused by K. kingae (2 with septic arthritis, 1 with osteomyelitis, 1 with septic arthritis and osteomyelitis, and 1 with bacteraemia) and review the literature. All bacterial isolates were identified by the Bactec culture system.

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