Investigator: Matthew Ramsey, University of Rhode Island Mentor: David Nelson, University of Rhode Island Scientific Theme: Molecular Toxicology Abstract: Kingella kingae is an emerging pathogen in pediatric infectious diseases that colonizes the throat (oropharynx) of 3-17% of children ~6-60 months asymptomatically and infrequently disseminates from the oropharynx to cause endocardial (heart) or osteoarticular/ osteomyelitic (joint and bone) infection. […]

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