1. Clinical Features and Comparison of Kingella and Non–Kingella Endocarditis in Children, Israel
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Elhanan Nahum, Itzhak Levy, Tamir Dagan, Haim Ben-Zvi, Liat Ashkenazi-Hoffnung, Dafna Marom, Einat Birk, Gabriel Amir, Eran Shostak, Elchanan Bruckheimer, Alexander Lowenthal, Georgy Frenkel, Havatzelet Yarden-Bilavsky, Oded Scheuerman, Hila Weisblum-Neuman, and Gabriel Chodick
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Male ,Microbiology (medical) ,Oral aphthae ,Staphylococcus aureus ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Epidemiology ,030231 tropical medicine ,Kingella species ,lcsh:Medicine ,Clinical Features and Comparison of Kingella and Non-Kingella Endocarditis in Children, Israel ,Signs and symptoms ,medicine.disease_cause ,lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Streptococcus species ,medicine ,Humans ,Endocarditis ,lcsh:RC109-216 ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Israel ,bacteremia ,bacteria ,Child ,infective endocarditis ,business.industry ,Incidence (epidemiology) ,lcsh:R ,bacterial infection ,Streptococci ,Endocarditis, Bacterial ,Staphylococcal Infections ,medicine.disease ,pediatric ,Infectious Diseases ,Infective endocarditis ,Bacteremia ,Synopsis ,Kingella ,oral aphthae ,business - Abstract
Kingella spp. have emerged as an important cause of invasive pediatric diseases. Data on Kingella infective endocarditis (KIE) in children are scarce. We compared the clinical features of pediatric KIE cases with those of Streptococcus species IE (StIE) and Staphylococcus aureus IE (SaIE). A total of 60 patients were included in the study. Throughout the study period, a rise in incidence of KIE was noted. KIE patients were significantly younger than those with StIE and SaIE, were predominately boys, and had higher temperature at admission, history of oral aphthae before IE diagnosis, and higher lymphocyte count (p
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- 2021
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