A modified multilocus sequence typing protocol to genotype Kingella kingae from oropharyngeal swabs without bacterial isolation

A modified multilocus sequence typing protocol to genotype Kingella kingae from oropharyngeal swabs without bacterial isolation

Abstract Background Outbreaks of Kingella kingae infection are an emerging public health concern among daycare attendees carrying epidemic clones in the oropharynx. However, genotyping of such epidemic clones from affected cases is limited by the low performance of current methods to detect K. kinga...

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Main Authors: Nawal El Houmami, Janek Bzdrenga, Jean-Christophe Pons, Philippe Minodier, Guillaume André Durand, Anis Oubraham, Dimitri Ceroni, Pablo Yagupsky, Didier Raoult, Philippe Bidet, Pierre-Edouard Fournier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Microbiology
Subjects:
Kingella kingae
MLST
Pediatrics
Outbreaks
Bone and joint infections
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12866-017-1104-5

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