Dissemination of kingella kingae in the community and long-term persistence of invasive clones

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 707-710

  Yagupsky, Pablo ^a   Weiss Salz, Inbal ^b   Fluss, Ronen ^b,c   Freedman, Laurence ^b,c   Peled, Nehama ^a   Trefler, Ronit ^a   Porat, Nurith ^a   Dagan, Ron ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

Clones; Colonization; Invasive infection; Kingella kingae; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KINGELLA KINGAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 68649111908     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31819f1f36     Document Type: Article

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