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Volume 3, Number 3, Year 2008

Contents

EDITORIAL

Zinc as an adjunct treatment for Shigella in low income settings

Christa L. Fischer Walker


 

REVIEW ARTICLE

Barriers to acceptance of the human papillomavirus prophylactic vaccine

Jill Blumenthal, Katherine P. Heyman, Robin M. Trocola, Brian M. Slomovitz

 

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Comparative sensitivity to zinc sulphate of Shigella isolates recovered from Nigerian children with low and marginal plasma zinc concentrations

Bamidele Abiodun Iwalokun, Senapon Bakare

 

Has the number of cases of pediatric empyema increased in North-West Spain?

Federico Martinón-Torres, Silvia Dosil Gallardo, Laura Pérez Gay, Fernando Alvez,

Antonio Rodriguez Núñez, Jose María Martinón Sánchez

 

Clinical and laboratory features of congenital malaria in Nigeria

Adeola A. Orogade, Catherine O. Falade, Henrietta U. Okafor, Olugbenga A. Mokuolu, Aisha I. Mamman, Tagbo A. Ogbonu, Oluwatoyin O. Ogunkunle, Kolade S. Ernest, Michael V.Callahan, David H. Hamer

 

Effects of meningitis and encephalitis on oxidative state of blood and cerebrospinal fluid

Saadet Akarsu, Seval Yilmaz, Sema Ozan, Fulya Benzer, A. Neşe Citak Kurt, Abdullah Kurt

 

CASE REPORTS

Acute rheumatic fever accompanied by pulmonary regurgitation and psychiatric syndrome

Iqbal Mochtar, Saskia Dyah Handari

 

Congenital cytomegalovirus infection with multiorgan involvement and coarctation of aorta with aortic thrombi and corpus callosal agenesis: A causal association?

Rakesh Kumar Mondal, Madhumita Nandi, Anirban Chatterjee, Achyut Sarkar

 

Group B streptococcus abscess as the initial presentation of a new onset diabetic child

Thomas J. Seery, Steven E. Spencer

 

Katayama fever: A cause of fever in children returning from the tropics

Pernille Brandt, Poul-Erik Kofoed

 

Visceral leishmaniasis with bilateral parotid swelling: A novel association

Madhumita Nandi, Jagabandhu Ghosh, Suhas K. Ganguli

 

Superior vena cava syndrome in childhood: A case report

S. Kolade Ernest, Ezekiel O. Odelowo