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| Title |
Association between oropharyngeal carriage of Kingella kingae and osteoarticular infection in young children: a case–control study
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| Published in |
Canadian Medical Association Journal, September 2017
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| DOI | 10.1503/cmaj.170127 |
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| Authors |
Jocelyn Gravel, Dimitri Ceroni, Laurence Lacroix, Christian Renaud, Guy Grimard, Eleftheria Samara, Abdessalam Cherkaoui, Gesuele Renzi, Jacques Schrenzel, Sergio Manzano |
| Abstract |
Kingella kingae has been increasingly identified in patients with osteoarticular infections. Our main objective was to evaluate the association between carriage of K. kingae in the oropharynx of preschool children and osteoarticular infections. We conducted this prospective case-control study in 2 tertiary care pediatric hospitals (Canada and Switzerland) between 2014 and 2016. Potential cases were children aged 6 to 48 months with a presumptive diagnosis of osteoarticular infection according to the treating emergency physician. Confirmed cases were those with diagnosis of osteomyelitis or septic arthritis proven by positive findings on technetium-labelled bone scan or magnetic resonance imaging or identification of a microorganism in joint aspirate or blood. For each case, we recruited 4 age-matched controls from among children presenting to the same emergency department for trauma. The independent variable was presence of oropharyngeal K. kingae DNA identified by a specific polymerase chain reaction assay. We determined the association between oropharyngeal carriage of K. kingae and definitive osteoarticular infection. The parents of 77 children admitted for suspected osteoarticular infection and 286 controls were invited to participate and provided informed consent. We identified K. kingae in the oropharynx of 46 (71%) of 65 confirmed cases and 17 (6%) of 286 controls; these results yielded an odds ratio of 38.3 (95% confidence interval 18.5-79.1). Detection of oropharyngeal K. kingae was strongly associated with osteoarticular infection among children presenting with symptoms suggestive of such infection. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 8 | 57% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 4 | 29% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 64% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 36% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 40 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 40 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 7 | 18% |
| Other | 6 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 5 | 13% |
| Unknown | 12 | 30% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 33% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 3% |
| Environmental Science | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 4 | 10% |
| Unknown | 17 | 43% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 254. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 June 2018.
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#6
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