| Title | KINGELLA KINGAE ENDOCARDITIS AND A CLUSTER INVESTIGATION AMONG DAYCARE ATTENDEES. | | Author(s) | Seña AC, Seed P, Nicholson B, Joyce M, Cunningham CK | | Institution | From the *Durham County Health Department, Durham, NC; daggerUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; double daggerDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Duke University, Durham, NC; and section signDurham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC. | | Source | Pediatr Infect Dis J 2009 Oct 30. | | Abstract | Kingella kingae can cause invasive pediatric infections and outbreaks of osteomyelitis/septic arthritis in daycare facilities have been described. This is the first reported public health investigation prompted by a case of K. kingae endocarditis in an infant attending a daycare facility. A concurrent case of osteomyelitis was identified. Screening of daycare contacts revealed a low rate of colonization before antibiotic prophylaxis. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 19884874 |
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