Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Diseases in Children.
Table of Contents
- PCV13 vaccination highly effective but complicated by serotype replacement
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- In midst of outbreak, DRC begins first multidrug trial for Ebola treatments
- One-third of parents are declining flu vaccination for their child this year
- FDA considers food labeling requirements for sesame products
- FDA grants Sanofi Pasteur’s dengue vaccine priority review
- Advice for parents: ‘No reason to panic’ over AFM
- Speak with your patients about the harms of energy drinks
- Air pollution causes millions of asthma-related ED visits around the world
- Kids with measles vulnerable to developing infectious disease symptoms years later
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- Nose picking is major source of S. pneumoniae colonization
- Probiotics do not prevent gastroenteritis symptoms in children, studies show
- Weight responsible for asthma in one-quarter of patients with obesity
- AAP issues policy statement on effects of armed conflict on children
- AAP updates corporal punishment policy, offers parents alternatives to spanking
- AAP’s changes to TB recommendations important for pediatricians to know
- Addition of bovine colostrum reduces frequency, duration of acute diarrhea
- Dogs sniff out malaria in children’s socks
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- Epinephrine autoinjectors not used in nearly 80% of anaphylactic events
- Instant soups account for more than 20% of pediatric scald injuries
- Millions of children injured in falls from soft furniture
- Most children cannot tell real guns from toy guns
- Parents commonly use OTC medications as sleep aids for kids
- Parents frequently share children’s antibiotics with others
- Superheroes are more violent than villains
- Teens infrequently fill antibiotic prescriptions for STIs after ED discharge
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- Therapy putty does not improve focus in kids with ADHD
- Would it be more beneficial to promote a pneumococcal vaccine that includes all or most serotypes to prevent disease or a ‘custom’ vaccine based on serotype prevalence?
- 4-year-old healthy female presents to ED with a rapidly worsening rash Colleen H. Cotton, MD; Marissa J. Perman, MD
- An unusual case with which to challenge your senior residents (and staff) James H. Brien, DO