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Patterns of Kingella kingae Disease Outbreaks

Nawal El Houmami1, Philippe Minodier, Grégory Dubourg

  • 1From the *Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, University La Timone Children's Hospital; †URMITE "Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses Tropicales Emergentes", UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Aix-Marseille University; ‡Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University North Hospital, Marseille, France; §Laboratoire de Virologie, Centre National de Référence des Enterovirus et Parechovirus-laboratoire associé, CHU de Clermont-Ferrand, Clermont-Ferrand, France; ¶Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert Debré, AP-HP, Université Paris-Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, Paris, France; ‖Aix Marseille Université, IRD French Institute of Research for Development, EHESP French School of Public Health, EPV UMR_D 190 "Emergence des Pathologies Virales", & Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Marseille, France; and **Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Soroka University Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
|December 15, 2015
PubMed
Summary

Kingella kingae outbreaks in childcare centers cause severe infections, often missed by traditional cultures. Genomic technologies are crucial for accurate identification and understanding these pediatric disease patterns.

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