Differentiating osteoarticular infections caused by kingella kingae from those due to typical pathogens in young children

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 906-909

  Ceroni, Dimitri ^a   Cherkaoui, Abdessalam ^a   Combescure, Christophe ^a   François, Patrice ^a   Kaelin, André ^a   Schrenzel, Jacques ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

clinical signs; Kingella kingae; osteoarticular infection; predictive value

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ACUTE OSTEOARTICULAR INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BONE INFECTION; CHILD; CHONDRITIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KINGELLA KINGAE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 80052952427     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: 15320987     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31821c3aee     Document Type: Article

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