Temporal Association Between Rhinovirus Activity and Kingella kingae Osteoarticular Infections

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the seasonal distribution of Kingella kingae osteoarticular infections is similar to that of common respiratory viruses. STUDY DESIGN: Between October 2009 and September 2016, we extracted the results of K kingae-specific real-time polymerase chain reaction analyses performed for bone or joint specimens in patients from 2 pediatric tertiary care centers in Paris. We used data of respiratory virus detection from the Réseau National des Laboratoires network with coordination with the National Influenza Center of France. The Spearman rank correlation was used to assess a correlation between weekly distributions, with P