BACKGROUND The majority of neonatal rotavirus infections are believed to be asymptomatic, and protection from subsequent infection and disease has been reported in neonatally infected children. In this study, we present the results of a 4-year prospective surveillance in the neonatal nurseries of a tertiary care hospital in south India. METHODS Stool samples from neonates admitted for >48 hou...

BACKGROUND Positive pressure resuscitation by laryngeal mask airway (LMA) may expose the neonate to gas leak and gastric air insufflation, influencing postnatal gastrointestinal adaptation and breastfeeding success. METHODS Term neonates admitted to regular nursery of the Department of Pediatrics of Padua University (Italy), from January 2005 to December 2005, after positive pressure resuscit...

OBJECTIVE To determine and to compare the levels of secretory immunoglobulin A in samples of colostrum and milk of mothers of term and preterm neonates. MATERIAL AND METHODS The levels of secretory immunoglobulin A of 10 mothers of term neonates and 10 mothers of preterm neonates were determined from 5 mL of colostrum or milk collected on the 1st, 4th, 10th and 15th days of the puerperal peri...

OBJECTIVES The etiology of conotruncal heart defects (CHD) remains unknown; however relation between homocysteine, folate levels, and congenital heart disease was found. With this perspective in mind, the aim of the study was to investigate biomarkers of homosyteine metabolism pathway in mothers and their neonates with CHD. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty-three pairs of mothers and their neonates ...

OBJECTIVE To identify neurobehavioral effects of prenatal marijuana exposure on neonates in rural Jamaica. DESIGN Ethnographic field studies and standardized neuro-behavior assessments during the neonatal period. SETTING Rural Jamaica in heavy-marijuana-using population. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-four Jamaican neonates exposed to marijuana prenatally and 20 nonexposed neonates. MEASUREMENTS A...

To further investigate the neutrophil dysfunction of newborn infants, we have measured expression of the neutrophil Fc gamma receptors FcRIII and FcRII in extremely immature preterm neonates born at 24 to 32 weeks of gestation. Fc receptor expression was measured by FACS analysis of cells stained with monoclonal antibody Leu11b for FcRIII and IV-3 for FcRII. "Well" preterm neonates displayed re...

PURPOSE This study aimed to compare the regulatory T cells in cord blood of appropriate for gestational age (AGA) neonates with those of small for gestational age (SGA) neonates. MATERIALS AND METHODS Umbilical cord blood was collected upon labor in 108 healthy full-term (between 37 and 41 gestational weeks) neonates, who were born between November 2010 and April 2012. Among them, 77 samples ...

A distinct feature of neonatal rotavirus infection is the association of unusual strains that appear to be prevalent only in neonatal units and persist for long periods of time. The main aims of this study were to determine if rotavirus can be detected on environmental surfaces in the neonatal nursery and whether the infection occurs in mothers of infected and uninfected neonates. Thirty rotavi...

Exposure to herbicides in neonates, described this article, was detected from the realization of a biomonitoring study, which proposed due concern and academic interest on identifying probable presence agrochemicals population. The sample consisted 280 neonates University Hospital. determination by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS).

Intravenous (i.v.) paracetamol (acetaminophen) is gaining increasing use in neonates (1–3), despite an off-label status in some countries. Product information for i.v. paracetamol does not consider the clearance maturation with age in neonates in its dosing recommendations. In Australasia the same dose of 15 mgÆkg 6 h is suggested for neonates over 10 days of age and for infants and children up...