Kingella kingae: Carriage, transmission, and disease

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 54-79

  Yagupsky, Pablo ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MACROLIDE; OXACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN; RTX TOXIN; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABORTIVE SKELETAL INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOFILM; BONE INFECTION; CHILD CARE; CYTOTOXICITY; ENDOCARDITIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; KINGELLA KINGAE; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MENINGITIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; OCCULT BACTEREMIA; OROPHARYNX; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TAXONOMY; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS INFECTION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KINGELLA KINGAE; NEGIBACTERIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KINGELLA KINGAE; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 84920982768     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00028-14     Document Type: Review

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