BACKGROUND AND AIM Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is one of the most important causes of acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTI) in infants and young children. This study was conducted to describe the epidemiology of ALRTI associated with RSV among children ≤ 5 years old in Egypt. PATIENTS AND METHODS We enrolled 427 children ≤ 5 years old diagnosed with ALRTI attending the outpat...

Mature visual experience is tuned by inputs to the developing visual system. However, little is known about the low-level statistics of available visual input as infants interact with the world in rapidly changing ways. Recent studies of the contents of infant-perspective scenes (sampled from a corpus of over 5 million head camera images) indicate that these contents change dramatically over th...

Whereas the effects of maternal parenting quality during infants' 2nd year on later executive function (EF) have been studied extensively, less is known about the impact of maternal parenting quality during the 1st year. The aim of this study was to examine whether maternal parenting during infants' 1st year predicted EF performance at 2 and 3 years of age in a Chinese sample. Data were collect...

Karsner (1908) described 'congenital nephritis' in an infant who died 45 minutes after a normal birth, and Lapage (1932) discussed acute haemorrhagic nephritis in an 11-day-old boy who died in a few days. Conrad (1938) gave a resume of three infants with neonatal nephritis for which no cause was found. One infant died on the seventh day of life, but the others recovered. Generalized oedema, hae...

BACKGROUND According to the Chagas congenital transmission guides, the diagnosis of infants, born to Trypanosoma cruzi infected mothers, relies on the detection of parasites by INP micromethod, and/or the persistence of T. cruzi specific antibody titers at 10-12 months of age. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Parasitemia levels were quantified by PCR in T. cruzi-infected children, grouped a...

background accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis in infants is important. there are a few studies around tuberculosis in infancy in the literature. objectives this study defines the clinical and radiological features of tuberculosis in infants less than one year of age. materials and methods the medical records were reviewed for all infants aging 12 months or less with diagnosis of tuberculosis at...

vaccination pain management in infants may prevent short-term and long-term physical and mental consequences in them. As a result, this study aimed to determine and investigate the effect of breastfeeding and sensorial saturation on physiological parameters of infants after administration of pentavalent vaccine at four and six months of age. Materials and Methods: This randomized controlled fie...

background: childhood masturbation (cm) is considered a variant of normal sexual behavior; however, it is commonly misdiagnosed as epilepsy and movement disorders. as the first study from iran, we analyzed a large population of infants and children with cm in a case-control study and evaluated the value of mucus in urine analysis as an alternative diagnostic tool for cm. methods: a total of 623...

The prognostic value of immunological indices, in vitro antibody production, and virus culture pattern at 3 months of age was estimated in 35 infants infected by HIV-1 from a cohort of 298 babies born to HIV-1 seropositive mothers and followed up from birth. At 1 year old, 15 of these infants were classified as stage P-1 (according to the Centers for Disease Control classification) seven were P...