Genotyping of invasive Kingella kingae isolates reveals predominant clones and association with specific clinical syndromes

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1074-1079

  Amit, Uri ^a   Porat, Nurith ^a   Basmaci, Romain ^b   Bidet, Philippe ^b   Bonacorsi, Stéphane ^b   Dagan, Ron ^a   Yagupsky, Pablo ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HÔPITAL ROBERT DEBRÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN RTXA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BONE INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; KINGELLA KINGAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REVIEW;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; BONE DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; KINGELLA KINGAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84866662453     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis622     Document Type: Review

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