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OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to estimate the prevalence of malaria amongst the children with fever or history of fever. SETTING Rural Health Centre (RHC), Jhangara, a town near the Manchhar Lake in Taluka Sehwan, District Dadu, Sindh. SUBJECTS Four hundred and thirty eight children of 6 months to 10 years of age, who attended above described RHC during August through October 1997. M...

BACKGROUND Rib fractures have a strong association with nonaccidental trauma (NAT) and severe trauma. The purposes of this study were to evaluate rib fractures in children to determine (1) the positive predictive value of a rib fracture in defining NAT and (2) the frequency of rib fractures as the only skeletal manifestation of NAT. METHODS We reviewed the medical records and imaging of all c...

BACKGROUND Acute symptomatic seizures and febrile seizures are common in children admitted to hospitals in Africa and may be markers of brain dysfunction. They may be associated with behavioural and emotional problems, but there are no published community-based studies in Africa. METHODS We screened 7047 children aged 1-6 years (randomly sampled from 50,000 in the community) for seizures (usi...

NOTES: Ranges are based on approximate quartiles among states with available estimates. Differences portrayed in this map should be interpreted with caution. The 95 percent confidence intervals for many states overlap. Current asthma prevalence estimates are based on the questions “Has a doctor or other health professional ever told you that {child's name} had asthma?" and “Does {child’s name} ...