Multilocus Sequence Typing and rtxA Toxin Gene Sequencing Analysis of Kingella kingae Isolates Demonstrates Genetic Diversity and International Clones

• Romain Basmaci,

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 3105, Paris, France, AP-HP, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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• Pablo Yagupsky,

  Affiliation Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Brice Ilharreborde,

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, AP-HP, Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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• Kathleen Guyot,

  Affiliation Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 3105, Paris, France

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• Nurith Porat,

  Affiliation Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit, Soroka University Medical Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Marilyn Chomton,

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 3105, Paris, France, AP-HP, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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• Jean-Michel Thiberge,

  Affiliation Plate-Forme Génotypage des Pathogènes et Santé Publique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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• Keyvan Mazda,

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France, AP-HP, Service de Chirurgie Orthopédique, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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• Edouard Bingen,

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 3105, Paris, France, AP-HP, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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• Stéphane Bonacorsi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stéphane Bonacorsi, Philippe Bidet

  * E-mail: stephane.bonacorsi@rdb.aphp.fr

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 3105, Paris, France, AP-HP, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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• Philippe Bidet

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stéphane Bonacorsi, Philippe Bidet

  Affiliations Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, EA 3105, Paris, France, AP-HP, Laboratoire de Microbiologie, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France

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