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Wineries have been subject to oversight by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for years, but because these operations pose a relatively low risk of food-safety hazards, the heavily burdened [...]

The course of the spondylodiscitis’ infantile form is characterized by a mild-to-moderate clinical and biologic inflammatory response. Unfortunately, blood and diskvertebral aspiration cultures show a high percentage of negative results. However, detecting Kingella kingaeDNA in the oropharynx provided reasonable suspicion, to our opinion, that this microorganism is responsible for the spondylodiscitis.

Colonization of the oropharynx by Kingella kingaeis currently considered to be a prerequisite for later development of invasive infections. However, the oropharyngeal K. kingaeDNA bacterial load in children with osteoarticular infections caused by this microorganism is not different than that of asymptomatic carriers.

To evaluate the intrafamilial oropharyngeal transmission of Kingella kingae, we conducted a prospective study among pairs of siblings. We found that 55 of children who suffered from osteoarticular infections due to K. kingae, and 40 of asymptomatic carriers of K. kingaehad siblings with positive oropharyngeal carriage.