Parvovirus B19 is the etiologic agent of erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), a fever-rash illness occurring in childhood. We present a 10 month old child with high grade fever for 10 days, generalized tonic-clonic seizure, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy, generalized maculopapular rash, hematemesis and malena. Bone marrow aspiration and liver biopsy were done. EBV serology and parvovirus P...

case reported by Kamala, et al.(3) palatal paralysis was seen on the seventeenth day of illness. The other common causes of palatal paralysis including poliomyelitis and diphtheria were excluded in this case. In view of the emergence of multidrug resistant enteric fever with various complications, we suggest that typhoid fever should be considered in the differential diagnosis of palatal palsy ...

2. Saleh is a 2-year-old male who presented with a self-aborted generalized tonic clonic seizure, which lasted for few minutes with high-grade fever due to pharyngitis. His father who is now a mathematics teacher, used to have seizures with fever between ages 2-4 years. Saleh’s mother is asking whether her child is going to be epileptic in future or not. Best response is that you would tell her...

Rosai-Dorfman disease is a self-limiting condition caused by histiocyte proliferation within the sinusoids of lymph nodes and in extranodal tissue. It is a rare disease, particularly in children, that progresses with extensive lymphadenopathy. This paper reports on the case of a 2-year-old child with progressive cervical lymphadenopathy associated with persistent fever and radiological findings...

prolonged and high fever may cause various disturbances in children, and prompt lowering of fever is essential. therefore, an appropriate treatment aimed at rapid lowering of fever and keeping the child afebrile is mandated. there have been various studies on the different types of anti-pyretic treatment in children. the aim of our study is to compare the antipyretic effect of acetaminophen and...

A 6-year-old previously healthy female from the United States presented with 5 days of high fever to 103F, abdominal pain, and vomiting. Exposure history included recent travel Russia, Turkey, Yosemite, San Diego Zoo, as well multiple mosquito bites. On admission, she was found have thrombocytopenia, hematuria, nephrotic range proteinuria subsequently developed acute kidney injury. Her grandfat...

A 12-year-old male child reported with history of fever for last seven years. Hepatosplenomegaly, hepatic and bone marrow granulomas were the main features. Idiopathic Granulomatous Hepatitis (IGH), a rare syndrome amenable to immunosuppressive therapy was diagnosed.

In a longitudinal study of child growth and nutritional status in Bangladesh, child morbidity was recorded using health interviews with the mother. The aim of the present study was to establish whether maternal reports of child illness were associated with the biochemical health status of the child. Children aged 2-5 years (n 117) took part in the study and their mothers were interviewed every ...

An increased risk of severe and fatal Israeli spotted fever (ISF) has been observed in adults, mostly associated with ISF strain. Here, we report a case of severe ISF with multiorgan failure in a Portuguese child.

A non-agglutinable Vibrio cholerae strain isolated from the blood of a child with kwashiorkor and fever was shown to have the potential to invade as well as to produce a toxin resembling cholera toxin.