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Published on: October 29, 2014
A prospective study of intrafamilial oropharyngeal transmission of Kingella kingae
Georgios Kampouroglou1, Victor Dubois-Ferrière, Rebecca Anderson De La Llana
1From the *Pediatric Orthopedic Service;†Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Service of Infectious Diseases; ‡Pediatric Emergency Division; and §Genomic Research Laboratory, Service of Infectious Diseases, University Hospitals of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
Abstract:
To evaluate the intrafamilial oropharyngeal transmission of Kingella kingae, we conducted a prospective study among pairs of siblings. We found that 55% of children who suffered from osteoarticular infections due to K. kingae, and 40% of asymptomatic carriers of K. kingae had siblings with positive oropharyngeal carriage.
