We reviewed the incidence of occult bacteremia, to identify the most frequent etiological agents of bacteremias in otherwise healthy children from one month to 10 years old, who had fever of unknown origin attended at the emergency ward of an urban, university-affiliated pediatric referral center. This was a retrospective medical record review, evaluating children with fever. Data were collecte...

Cryptosporidium spp. infection is one of the causes diarrhea in people living with HIV/AIDS. The objective this study to compare sensitivity microscopy and molecular biology determine prevalence Patients Living With HIV (PLWH). This a descriptive cross-sectional conducted three care centers for HIV/AIDS Abidjan. It took place from November 2018 March 2020. Sociodemographic data were obtained vi...

OBJECTIVES To determine the risk for bacteremia, in the post-Haemophilus influenzae type b era, in a prospective cohort of well-appearing febrile children 3 to 36 months of age with no obvious source of infection; and to compare the predictive abilities of objective criteria in identification of children with occult pneumococcal bacteremia from those at risk. DESIGN All children seen from 199...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS To determine the cost-effectiveness of screening for colorectal cancer using flexible sigmoidoscopy once every 10 years, compared with annual and biennial rehydrated Hemoccult fecal occult blood testing and colonoscopy once every 10 years, or no screening. METHODS A Markov model was developed in order to simulate the progression of a cohort of asymptomatic, average-risk in...

From August, 1989 to December, 1992, 11,386 individuals consisting of 6,981 males and 4,405 females were examined in the general health check at Mito Saiseikai general hospital. Occult blood in dipstick urinalysis was detected in 190 of 6,981 males (2.7%) and 503 of 4,405 females (11.4%). Two renal cell carcinomas and ten bladder carcinomas were found out, but prostatic carcinoma could not be f...

We screened 50 consecutive severely malnourished children for evidence of gastrointestinal tract blood loss. Malnutrition was graded as per WHO recommendations. Gastrointestinal blood loss was detected using fecal occult blood test (FOBT) kit. Thirty (60%) of the study population were documented to be FOBT positive. This simple and rapid test is recommended as a routine screening procedure amon...

Background:Upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding remains a problem in critically ill-newborns. The use of H2 blockers, by maintaining gastric pH ³ 4, reduces the risk of stress-ulceration and gastric hemorrhage. This study therefore, has evaluated the effects of short-term prophylactic‎ ranitidine in controlling gastric pH and prevention of GI bleeding in neonates. Methods: This randomized contr...