Publications by authors named "Jean-Christophe Pons"
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- A 5-year-old boy from Cameroon is reported as the first case of septic arthritis in a child from sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting the emerging concern of invasive infections in young children in resource-limited settings.
- The boy exhibited symptoms like a painful limp after a mild upper respiratory infection and was found to have knee tenderness, which was confirmed through imaging and lab tests.
- Diagnostic tests initially returned negative results for common pathogens, but advanced PCR techniques identified a new sequence type, suggesting a potential underrecognized cause of bone and joint infections in this region.
Background: Outbreaks of Kingella kingae infection are an emerging public health concern among daycare attendees carrying epidemic clones in the oropharynx. However, genotyping of such epidemic clones from affected cases is limited by the low performance of current methods to detect K. kingae from blood samples and lack of specimens available from infected sites.
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