Infectious diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Sometimes concurrent infections with multiple infectious agents may occur in one patient, which make the diagnosis and management a challenging task. The authors here present a case of co-infection of typhoid fever with dengue fever in a ten-year-old child and discuss the pertinent issues. The au...

BACKGROUND More than 153 million children worldwide have been orphaned by the loss of one or both parents, and millions more have been abandoned. We investigated relationships between the health of orphaned and abandoned children (OAC) and child, caregiver, and household characteristics among randomly selected OAC in five countries. METHODOLOGY Using a two-stage random sampling strategy in 6 ...

The patient was seen again at 4, 6, and 10 months of age for the same rash. The diagnosis was amended to atopic dermatitis and the treatment was changed to 1% hydrocortisone ointment, to which there was minimal response. At 1 year of age, the child was brought to the ED with fever and rash. This was the first time fever accompanied the rash. Laboratory test results— including a CBC, blood cultu...

Sushama Sahoo*, MD, and Asok Kumar Mandal, MD Department of Pediatric Medicine, Dr. B C Roy Post Graduate Institute of Pediatric Sciences, West Bengal, India Received: Mar 29, 2011; Accepted: Jan 06, 2012 Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome with multisystem vasculitis mainly affecting infants and children less than 5 years of age, first described by Tomis...

OBJECTIVE Enhancing maternal and child health are key Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This study examined whether increased utilization of recommended maternal health care (MHC), is associated with factors that improve children's health; specifically, complete immunization and appropriate care for fever and diarrhoea in Ghana. DESIGN Data from the 1998, 2003, and 2008 Ghana Demographic a...

BACKGROUND Many parents consider fever a disease in itself and feel disempowered when their child is ill. Numerous guidelines have been produced; however, their target audience remains healthcare professionals and not carers of children in general. A reliable source of information will decrease worry in parents and carers when managing a febrile child. METHODS/DESIGN A systematic search will ...

A noteworthy cluster of six cases of Marburg haemorrhagic fever (MHF) was identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the cases is the first infant Marburg fever patient ever documented. Three of six cases presented surprisingly mild symptoms. The results of epidemiological and virological investigations are compatible with person-to-person transmission through body fluids and with m...

Lymphoma is the third common malignancy of childhood, presenting with rapidly or slowly growing mass, systemic B symptoms (fever, night sweats and weight loss), hepatomegaly and splenomegaly. Here, we report an eight year old male child who presented with fever, dyspnoea and weight loss of three kilograms over the last month; had right pleural effusion and was investigated for both infectious a...

Verma and colleagues reported an interesting case of recurrent fever of immunological origin [1]. The first episode probably favors a diagnosis of Kawasaki disease because of the presence of coronary artery dilatation, which normalized with anti-inflammatory therapy. During the second episode, the child had high-grade fever with oral mucosal changes and cervical lymphadenopathy with no identifi...

We had an opportunity to evaluate a child who developed fever approximately two to three weeks after the open heart surgery for tetralogy of Fallot. His peripheral blood smear showed rings and various stages of Plasmodium vivax. The patient had received packed red blood cells during the surgery and postoperative care, one unit of which was later proved sero-positive for malaria. The possibility...