Disease relevance of Kingella

• High-level tetracycline resistance resulting from TetM in strains of Neisseria spp., Kingella denitrificans, and Eikenella corrodens [1].
• CONCLUSIONS: Prompt diagnosis and treatment of HACEK [Hemophilus sp. (parainfluenzae, aphrophilus, paraphrophilus), Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corodens, and Kingella kingae] group bacterial endophthalmitis can yield good results [2].
• The two species appeared both homogeneous and without genetic affinity to each other or to species of Kingella, Neisseria, and Moraxella, as tested for by rather sensitive procedures with streptomycin- and spectinomycin-resistance markers [3].

High impact information on Kingella

• High-level tetracycline resistance in strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Neisseria meningitidis, Kingella denitrificans, and Eikenella corrodens has recently been described [4].
• Diagnosis of Kingella kingae arthritis by polymerase chain reaction analysis [5].
• Twelve isolates, including strain UB-38T (T = type strain), were phenotypically similar to Kingella kingae except that they did not produce acid from maltose and were not beta-hemolytic [6].
• From 1953 to 1980 the Centers for Disease Control received 933 isolates of bacteria belonging to species of the genus Moraxella, Moraxella-like Moraxella urethralis, now renamed Oligella urethralis, unnamed groups M-5 and M-6, and Kingella kingae [7].
• Cardiobacterium hominis can be distinguished from Kingella indologenes by its ability to ferment mannitol and sorbitol and by differences in enzyme production [8].

Chemical compound and disease context of Kingella

• Emended description of Kingella denitrificans (Snell and Lapage 1976): correction of the maltose reaction [9].
• Density gradient centrifugation in urografin of Moraxella and Kingella cells and appendages [10].

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