Invasive Kingella kingae Resulting in a Brodie Abscess.
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Timothy K. Ruttan, Eric Higginbotham, Nicole Higginbotham, Coburn H. Allen, and Sarmistha Hauger Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; Department of Neurosurgery, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; Departments of Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States; and Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas, Austin, United States
منابع مشابه
Two atypical cases of Kingella kingae invasive infection with concomitant human rhinovirus infection.
We describe two atypical cases of Kingella kingae infection in children diagnosed by PCR, one case involving a soft tissue abscess and one case a femoral Brodie abscess. Both patients had concomitant human rhinovirus infection. K. kingae strains, isolated from an oropharyngeal swab, were characterized by multilocus sequence typing and rtxA sequencing.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
دوره 4 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015