title: Epidemiology of invasive Kingella kingae infections in 2 distinct pediatric populations cohabiting in one geographic area.
abstract: The annual incidence of invasive Kingella kingae infection in children younger than 4 years of age was significantly higher in westernized Jews than in indigent Bedouins living side by side in southern Israel (12.21/100,000 and 5.83/100,000, respectively, (P < 0.05). One K. kingae clone was overrepresented among isolates from Jewish children, suggesting that differences in bacterial pathogenicity may contribute to the morbidity excess detected in this population group.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
authors.forename: Uri
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Amit
authors.forename: Ron
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dagan
authors.forename: Nurith
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Porat
authors.forename: Ronit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Trefler
authors.forename: Pablo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yagupsky
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D017882:Kingella kingae / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008297:Male; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D058889:Molecular Typing; D016870:Neisseriaceae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*