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Advances in Understanding Kingella kingae (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
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Advances in Understanding Kingella kingae (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Immunology
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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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