Pediatric osteo-articular infections with negative culture results: What about Kingella kingae?;Infections ostéo-articulaires septiques à culture négative chez l'enfant: Avez-vous pensé à Kingella kingae?

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 5, Issue 224, 2009, Pages 2235-2239

  Cherkaoui, Abdessalam ^a   Ceroni, Dimitri ^b   Ferey, Solène ^d   Emonet, Stéphane ^a   Schrenzel, Jacques ^c  

^a Service des Maladies Infectieuses   (Switzerland)

^b Service d'Orthopédie Pédiatrique

^c Service des Maladies Infectieuses   (France)

^d HUG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIN; RNA 16S;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLOOD CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; KINGELLA KINGAE; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OSTEOARTICULAR INFECTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW;

BONE DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KINGELLA KINGAE; MALE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 70849134642     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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