Osteoarticular Infections of the Chest Wall Due to Kingella Kingae: A Series of 8 Cases
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Benoit Coulin; Dimitri Ceroni; Tanguy Vendeuvre; Céline Habre; Christina Steiger; Giacomo DeMarco; Romain Dayer; Vanessa Morello
- Source
- The pediatric infectious disease journal, Vol. 39, No 5 (2020) pp. e54-e56
- Subject
- musculoskeletal diseases
Microbiology (medical)
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Neisseriaceae Infections
Kingella kingae / pathogenicity
Kingella kingae
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030225 pediatrics
Medicine
Humans
Kingella kingae / genetics
030212 general & internal medicine
Kingella kingae / drug effects
Thoracic Wall
Arthritis, Infectious / diagnostic imaging
Respiratory Tract Infections
Retrospective Studies
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Arthritis, Infectious
ddc:618
biology
business.industry
Infant
Neisseriaceae Infections / complications
Anti-Bacterial Agents / pharmacology
Neisseriaceae Infections / diagnostic imaging
biology.organism_classification
Dermatology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Arthritis, Infectious / microbiology
Infectious Diseases
Child, Preschool
Thoracic Wall / microbiology
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
Female
Presentation (obstetrics)
business
Pediatric population
- Language
- ISSN
- 1532-0987
0891-3668
Osteoarticular infections of the chest wall are relatively uncommon in pediatric patients and affect primarily infants and toddlers. Clinical presentation is often vague and nonspecific. Laboratory findings may be unremarkable in osteoarticular chest wall infections and not suggestive of an osteoarticular infection. Causative microbes are frequently identified if specific nucleic acid amplification assays are carried out. In the young pediatric population, there is evidence that Kingella kingae is 1 of the main the main causative pathogens of osteoarticular infections of the chest wall.