Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Migrant children’s health endangered by family separation at US border
• Officials announce end of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak
• What level of health care should detained children receive?
• FDA approves Krintafel for P. vivax malaria prevention in teens, adults
• Experts recommend longer follow-up period for children exposed to Zika
• Adverse events with moxifloxacin rarely result in treatment discontinuations in children
• CDC expands treatment recommendation for latent TB to younger children
• Cryptosporidium infection stunts kids’ growth
• Less than 20% of teen girls with PID screened for HIV, syphilis
• Lyme disease cases in children soar in western Pennsylvania
• Pediatricians inconsistently follow IDSA guidelines for group A streptococcal pharyngitis
• Social hookah smoking prevalent among adolescents
• Under new AAP guideline, more US youths classified as having hypertension
• UTI prophylaxis increases likelihood of multidrug-resistant infection
• Measles, mumps outbreaks reveal need for hospital control strategies
• A 14-year-old female presents with a rash on the trunk for 2 weeks
• A 9-month-old male presents with 3-day history of fever, emesis