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Review

Kingella kingae Osteoarticular Infections Approached through the Prism of the Pediatric Orthopedist

by
Giacomo DeMarco
,
Moez Chargui
,
Benoit Coulin
,
Benoit Borner
,
Christina Steiger
,
Romain Dayer
and
Dimitri Ceroni
*
Pediatric Orthopedics Unit, Pediatric Service of Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Microorganisms 2022, 10(1), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10010025
Submission received: 25 November 2021 / Revised: 15 December 2021 / Accepted: 22 December 2021 / Published: 24 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Kingella kingae: Virulence Factors, Clinical Disease, and Diagnostics)
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Abstract

Nowadays, Kingella kingae (K. kingae) is considered as the main bacterial cause of osteoarticular infections (OAI) in children aged less than 48 months. Next to classical acute hematogenous osteomyelitis and septic arthritis, invasive K. kingae infections can also give rise to atypical osteoarticular infections, such as cellulitis, pyomyositis, bursitis, or tendon sheath infections. Clinically, K. kingae OAI are usually characterized by a mild clinical presentation and by a modest biologic inflammatory response to infection. Most of the time, children with skeletal system infections due to K. kingae would not require invasive surgical procedures, except maybe for excluding pyogenic germs’ implication. In addition, K. kingae’s OAI respond well even to short antibiotics treatments, and, therefore, the management of these infections requires only short hospitalization, and most of the patients can then be treated safely as outpatients.
Keywords: Kingella kingae; osteoarticular infection; septic arthritis; acute hematogenous osteomyelitis; subacute osteomyelitis; surgical procedure; real time PCR; antibiotic treatment Kingella kingae; osteoarticular infection; septic arthritis; acute hematogenous osteomyelitis; subacute osteomyelitis; surgical procedure; real time PCR; antibiotic treatment

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DeMarco, G.; Chargui, M.; Coulin, B.; Borner, B.; Steiger, C.; Dayer, R.; Ceroni, D. Kingella kingae Osteoarticular Infections Approached through the Prism of the Pediatric Orthopedist. Microorganisms 2022, 10, 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10010025

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DeMarco G, Chargui M, Coulin B, Borner B, Steiger C, Dayer R, Ceroni D. Kingella kingae Osteoarticular Infections Approached through the Prism of the Pediatric Orthopedist. Microorganisms. 2022; 10(1):25. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10010025

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DeMarco, Giacomo, Moez Chargui, Benoit Coulin, Benoit Borner, Christina Steiger, Romain Dayer, and Dimitri Ceroni. 2022. "Kingella kingae Osteoarticular Infections Approached through the Prism of the Pediatric Orthopedist" Microorganisms 10, no. 1: 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10010025

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DeMarco, G., Chargui, M., Coulin, B., Borner, B., Steiger, C., Dayer, R., & Ceroni, D. (2022). Kingella kingae Osteoarticular Infections Approached through the Prism of the Pediatric Orthopedist. Microorganisms, 10(1), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10010025

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