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Epidemiology of invasive Kingella kingae infections in 2 distinct pediatric populations cohabiting in one geographic area.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal - 1 Apr 2012
Amit Uri, Dagan Ron, Porat Nurith, Trefler Ronit, Yagupsky Pablo
Abstract excerpt
The annual incidence of invasive Kingella kingae infection in children younger than 4 years of age was significantly higher in westernized Jews than in indigent Bedouins living side by side in southern Israel (12.21/100,000 and 5.83/100,000, respectively, (P < 0.05). One K. kingae clone was overrepresented among isolates from Jewish children, suggesting that differences in bacterial pathogenicity may contribute...
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