This book describes the growing body of information on the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, transmission, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of
Kingella kingae
infections
in young children. In addition, it covers experimental methods that have been developed to study the microbiology, genetics, and virulence factors of
K. kingae
, information that provides the foundation for new approaches to treatment and prevention of
K. kingae
disease. With this content in mind, excerpts from the book will be of relevance for clinicians who care for pediatric patients, for clinical microbiologists who are involved in detecting organisms in clinical specimens, and for scientists who are studying
K. kingae
in an effort to develop novel targets for antimicrobial therapy and new approaches to prevention.
First isolated in the 1960s by Elizabeth O. King, a bacteriologist at the CDC,
Kingella kingae
was largely ignored over the next two decades as a human pathogen because of its uncommon recovery from patients with disease. However, in recent years
K. kingae
has been increasingly recognized as a clinically important pathogen in young children, and is currently recognized as the leading cause of osteoarticular infections in young children in a growing number of countries. Research into this organism has grown tremendously over the past 15 years, resulting in a better appreciation of the importance of
K. kingae
in pediatric patients and of the molecular mechanisms of disease.
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Weitere Infos & Material
Preface.- Microbiology, Genomics, and Population Structure.- Epidemiology and Clinical Manifestations of
Kingella kingae
Disease.- Pathogenesis of
Kingella kingae
Disease.- Carriage and Transmission of
Kingella kingae.-
Advances in Diagnosis of
Kingella kingae
Disease.- Antibiotic Susceptibility of
Kingella kinage.- Kingella kingae
Treatment and Antibiotic Prophylaxis.- Experimental Methods for Studying
Kingella kingae.
