Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Diseases in Children.

Table of Contents

• Children with TB: A global public health crisis
• Antibiotic exposure in very low-birth-weight infants associated with mortality, major morbidity
• Dengue may affect Zika transmission
• Experts make the case for universal CMV screening
• Where should TB research focus?
• Active treatment improves survival in smallest US babies
• Bacteremia, meningitis rates higher among febrile neonates vs. infants
• Car crash risk increases sevenfold when teens reach for objects
• ED visits double among US teens considering suicide
• Hookah exposure consistent with carbon monoxide poisoning
• Infants with rhinovirus C at risk for recurrent wheeze
• Kids are prescribed more antibiotics with telemedicine
• Long-term cotrimoxazole improves outcomes in children with HIV/AIDS
• Nose, throat microbiome hints at source of LRTIs in children
• Physical therapy ball pits filled with bacteria that may make children sick
• RSV burden among young children greater than previously thought
• Treatment delays common among children with scrub typhus
• Infants born through cesarean section more likely to have respiratory infection
• Nearly all kids with AFM in 2018 had prior viral illness, CDC says
• Petting zoos harbor potentially dangerous MDR bacteria
• Is your patient ‘allergic’ to penicillin? Perhaps not Edward A. Bell, PharmD, BCPS
• A 16-year-old male athlete presents with fluid-filled lesions James H. Brien, DO