Specific Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Places Kingella kingae as the Most Common Cause of Osteoarticular Infections in Young Children

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BACKGROUND: The use of universal 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has recently shown that the place of Kingella kingae in osteoarticular infections (OAI) in young children has been underestimated, but this technique is not the most sensitive or the most rapid method for molecular diagnosis. We developed a specific real-time PCR method to detect K. kingae DNA and applied it to the etiologic diagnosis of...

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