Kingella kingae infections of the skeletal system in children: Diagnosis and therapy

Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 787-794

  Yagupsky, Pablo ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antibiotic therapy; Children; Diskitis; Epidemiology; Kingella kingae; Osteomyelitis; Prognosis; Septic arthritis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MACROLIDE; OXACILLIN; PENBITRIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISKITIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; KINGELLA KINGAE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SKELETON; SYNOVIAL FLUID;

EID: 5644287803     PISSN: 14787210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14789072.2.5.787     Document Type: Review

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