Results Of 286HIV-infected patients, 12 were children (4.1%), 8 (66.7%) of whom were male. Ages at diagnosis ranged from 6 months to 12 years (median 5). Of the 10 (83.3%) children who acquired the infection by vertical transmission, median age at diagnosis was 3 years. Only one woman was offered PMTCT interventions with HAART started lately at 38 weeks of pregnancy, oral AZT and replacement fe...

This case study discusses in detail for the first time the diagnosis and management of a case of leishmaniosis in a dog imported to Australia. The dog presented with epistaxis and a non-regenerative anaemia five years after being imported from Europe. Protozoa were identified within macrophages in bone marrow and splenic cytology. A Leishmania indirect fluorescent antibody test was performed an...

Biallelic mutations in several genes associated with cytotoxic lymphocytes function has been related to Familial HLH (FHLH). The clinical presentation of primary and acquired may be indistinguishable, both forms are commonly triggered by infections. FHLH is well described children but the last decade late-onset cases have reported. We report immunological characteristics two adult patients carr...