1. Possible Association of Kingella kingae With Infantile Spondylodiscitis
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Dimitri Ceroni, Akatarina Kanavaki, Romain Dayer, Victor Dubois-Ferriere, Wilson Belaieff, Rebecca Anderson De La Llana, Pierre Lascombes, Division of Paediatrics Orthopaedic [Geneva], Geneva University Hospital (HUG), Department of Pediatrics (Geneva University Hospitals), Pediatric Radiology Service [Geneva], Service de Chirurgie d’Orthopédie Pédiatrique [CHRU Nancy], Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy (CHRU Nancy), Développement, Adaptation et Handicap. Régulations cardio-respiratoires et de la motricité (DevAH), and Université de Lorraine (UL)
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Male ,Microbiology (medical) ,Spondylodiscitis ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pathology ,Discitis ,Neisseriaceae Infections ,Inflammatory response ,Oropharynx ,Kingella kingae ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,Kingella kingae DNA ,Humans ,Medicine ,Prospective Studies ,0303 health sciences ,ddc:618 ,biology ,030306 microbiology ,business.industry ,Infant ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Dermatology ,3. Good health ,Hospitalization ,Infectious Diseases ,Child, Preschool ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Female ,business ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology - Abstract
International audience; The course of the spondylodiscitis’ infantile form is characterized by a mild-to-moderate clinical and biologic inflammatory response. Unfortunately, blood and disk/vertebral aspiration cultures show a high percentage of negative results. However, detecting Kingella kingae DNA in the oropharynx provided reasonable suspicion, to our opinion, that this microorganism is responsible for the spondylodiscitis.
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- 2013
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