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Volume 3, Number 2, Year 2008

Contents

EDITORIALS
Automated colorimetric blood culture systems in the diagnosis of neonatal sepsis
Lewis P. Rubin
 

REVIEW ARTICLES
Kawasaki disease
Athar Baig, Walid Abuhammour

 

Echinococcosis: A brief review
Pedro Moro, Peter M. Schantz

 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Comparison of BacT/Alert microbial detection system with conventional blood culture method in neonatal sepsis
Azra S. Hasan, Preena Uppal, Sugandha Arya, Malini R. Capoor, Deepthi Nair,
Harish Chellani, Monorama Deb, Pushpa Aggarwal

 

Efficacy and safety of 40 mg/kg and 60 mg/kg single doses of praziquantel in the treatment of Schistosomiasis japonicum
Vicente Y. Belizario, Jr., Maria Lourdes E. Amarillo, Ruth M. Martinez, Alexander O. Mallari, Cyndi Mae C. Tai

 

Elongated Helicobacter pylori in gastric mucosa of children associated with gastric disease 
Manisha Singh, Kashi N. Prasad, Surinder K Yachha

 

Seasonality and epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus in Qatar
Asma Al-Thani, Mamoun Elsheikh, Mohammed Janahi, Ajayeb Al-Marri, Huseyin Caksen, Abdulbari Bener
 

Evaluation of accuracy and cost four different methods for detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from pediatric patients hospitalized in Brazil
Marcelo Jenné Mimica, Eitan Naaman, Rozane de Lima Bigelli, Eliana Schneider,Hélio Hehl Caiaffa-Filho


 

CASE REPORTS
Increased incidence of invasive group A beta hemolytic streptococcal infections in children
Bianca Panis, Hans Wagenvoort, Els de Brauwer. Jeannette Dankert-Roelse

 

Female genital mutilation and parent to child transmission of HIV: A case report of a possible double tragedy
Biobele J. Brown, Regina Oladokun, Kikelomo Osinusi

 

A case of retroorbital subperiosteal hematoma and frontal extradural abscess
Amit Agrawal, Akshay Pratap, Chandra S. Agrawal, Satya N. Singh
 

Prolonged hepatitis due to hepatitis A virus infection in children
Madhumita Nandi, Rakesh Mondal, Supratim Datta, Abhijit Chowdhury

 

Fatal artesunate toxicity in a child
M. Santiago Campos, Pablo de la Cerda, Alfonso Rivera