Background and Aims: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is common in infants and young children. In infants younger than one year old it may cause bronchiolitis and pneumonia which requires hospitalization. Accurate and rapid diagnosis of the disease will help proper treatment of the disease and prevent further complications. Materials and Methods: Specimen taken from respiratory ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether early developmental intervention (EDI) can positively affect the trajectories of cognitive development among children from low-resource families. METHODS Longitudinal analyses were conducted of data from 293 children in the Brain Research to Ameliorate Impaired Neurodevelopment Home-based Intervention Trial, a randomized controlled trial of a home-based EDI pr...

Stefanini, Bello, Caselli, Iverson, & Volterra (2009) reported that Italian 24–36 month old children use a high proportion of representational gestures to accompany their spoken responses when labelling pictures. The two studies reported here used the same naming task with (1) typically developing 24–46-month-old hearing children acquiring English and (2) 24–63-month-old deaf children of deaf a...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Little is known on the long-term effects of obesity intervention programs in preschool-aged children. We compared the long-term effects of a multidisciplinary treatment program with a usual-care program in seventy-five 3- to 5-year-old overweight or obese children who had participated in a randomized controlled clinical trial. METHODS A follow-up study collecting data at 18 ...

duction: Iron deficiency anemia is the most common nutritional problem among children. This condition has affected approximately 48% of infants, worldwide. Given the importance of physical and mental development of young children, it is important to prevent this disease in order to prevent the loss of children’s abilities. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of PRECEDE model on ir...

new adherent form of an attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (eaeA+,bfp-) to the intestinal epithelial cells of chicks. To the Editor: Rotavirus is the main cause of severe acute gastroenteritis among children both in developing and in industrialized countries. The incidence of rotavirus gastroenteritis in northern Europe is similar to or greater than the estimated incidence of the disease i...