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277 Diagnosing Kingella Kingae Osteoarticular Infections in Young Children via Specific Oropharayngeal Swab PCR
2012
Archives of Disease in Childhood
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Abstracts microbiologic diagnosis. All 30 oropharyngeal swabs from the patients with K. kingae OAI, and 8 swabs from the 84 patients without OAI or with OAI caused by another organism, were positive. The sensitivity and specificity of oropharyngeal swab PCR for K. kingae OAI were 100% and 90.5%, respectively; positive and negative predictive values were 78.9%, and 100%, respectively. Conclusions Detection of K. kingae DNA in oropharayngeal swabs from children presenting clinical findings of OAI
doi:10.1136/archdischild-2012-302724.0277
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