Background Acute chest syndromes (ACS) may be associated with upper respiratory tract infections, but the epidemiology of viral and intracellular respiratory pathogens in children with sickle cell ...

From the age of 3 to 24 months, capillary Hb levels were measured on normal term infants who received no medicinal iron from any source. The mean and standard deviations are recorded at 3-monthly ...

Objective Cefepime, a fourth-generation cephalosporin, is used in the treatment of severe nosocomial infections in neonates. Pharmacokinetics of cefepime was limited. Therefore, we aimed to study the ...

Objective To describe infants with acute gastroenteritis symptoms in primary and secondary care who have the Rotarix vaccine-derived G1P[8] rotavirus strain identified in their stools. Design This is ...

Background There has been a rise in urgent paediatric hospital admissions and interventions to address this are required. Objective To systemically review the literature describing community (or ...

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AIM To test the hypothesis that children with behavioural and/or developmental problems have significantly higher blood lead concentrations than the general childhood population. METHODS Blood samples ...

Background Percutaneous long lines (PLL), widely used in neonatal intensive care units (NICU), are associated with several complications that may be influenced by both catheter size and material.

Dr Shouichi Ohga, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812, Japan. An 8 year old boy with ring chromosome 21 who was susceptible to ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathleen E Walsh, Benedict Second Floor, UMass Medical Center, 55 North Lake Avenue, Worcester, MA 01655, USA; walshk02{at}ummhc.org Background Children with chronic conditions ...

Objective To determine the prevalence of maternal colonization by GBS, evaluating the obstetrical and perinatal outcomes in low and high risk pregnant women from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Methods ...