KINGELLA-KINGAE ENDOCARDITIS IN A CHILD WITH HAIR-CARTILAGE HYPOPLASIA

Kingella kingae is a fastidious Gram-negative rod that since the 1980s has been appreciated as a cause of a variety of human infections, inc luding bone and joint infections, bacteremia, and rarely endocarditis [2, 6, 7, 9]. K. kingae endocarditis is rare, and only a few cases occ ur in normal, native valves. We report a case of K. kingae endocarditi s in a patient with hair-cartilage hypoplasia who had previously under gone bone marrow transplantation. The combination of these rare condit ions is discussed.