Open AccessOsteoarticular Infections of the Chest Wall Due to Kingella Kingae
Author(s) -
Dimitri Ceroni,
Giacomo DeMarco,
Benoît Coulin,
Tanguy Vendeuvre,
Vanessa Morello,
Céline Habre,
Romain Dayer,
Christina Steiger
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000002624
Subject(s) - kingella kingae , medicine , population , dermatology , immunology , septic arthritis , arthritis , environmental health
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.