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Volume 4, Number 4, Year 2009

Contents

EDITORIAL

Genetic polymorphisms and susceptibility to infection in neonates

Gaetano Chirico, Sara Chiappa

REVIEW ARTICLES

Rheumatic manifestations of Epstein-Barr virus in children

Brooke E. Gilliam, Melinda R. Reed, Reema H. Syed, Terry L. Moore

Rheumatic manifestations of parvovirus B19 in children

Melinda R. Reed, Brooke E. Gilliam, Reema H. Syed, Terry L. Moore

Chickenpox: An update

Alexander K.C. Leung, James D. Kellner, H. Dele Davies

Human metapneumovirus and pediatric patients: A mini review

Georgia Gioula, Vassiliki Kyriazopoulou-Dalaina

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Genetic polymorphisms of IL-6-174 and IL-10-1082 in full term neonates with late onset blood stream infections

Hesham Abdel-Hady, Mohamed El-Naggar, Ghada El-Nady, Rawia Badr, Medhat El-Daker

Different profiles of apoptosis and activation in children with progressive or static HIV-related encephalopathy

Almudena Blanco, Roberta Nardacci, Franca Del Nonno, Francesco Callea,

Paola Francalanci, Mauro Piacentini, Ma Ángeles Muñoz Fernández

Toxigenic Clostridium difficile colonization in children

Armin Shahnaz, Babaie Delara, Karimi Abdollah, Fatemeh Fallah

Hospital-based study of the severity and economic burden associated with rotavirus diarrhea in Sri Lanka

Nilmini Chandrasena, Shaman Rajindrajith, Ahmed Kamruddin,

Arunachalam Pathmeswaran, Osamu Nakagomi

Identifying HIV-infected children why may benefit from early initiation of antiretrovirals 

L. Gayani Tillekeratne, Sheng Feng, Werner Schimana, Opemipo O. Johnson, 

Grace D. Kinabo, Blandina T. Mmbaga, Levina J. Msuya, John F. Shao, 

Mark E. Swai, John A. Crump, Coleen K. Cunningham

ABO phenotype and sepsis in very low birth weight infants

Ceyda Acun, Asra Tanveer, Elsie Lee, Mohamed Mohamed, An Massaro, Tarek A. Hammad,

Hany Aly

CASE REPORTS

Isolated herpes simplex virus pneumonia in children

Rashed A. Hasan, Vineet K. Gupta, Walid Abuhammour

A case of acute transverse myelitis due to measles virus

Ayumi Endo, Tatsuo Fuchigami, Yuki Imai, Wakako Ishii, Chikako Arakawa,

Ryutaro Kohira, Yukihiko Fujita, Hiroyuki Izumi, Hideo Mugishima

Liver abscess and respiratory disease caused by anginosus group Streptococci 

Alice C. B. Setti, Philip T. Mannion, Peter R. Stutchfield

Pseudotumor cerebri: A rare complication of varicella

Syed Ahmed Zaki, Deepak Dadge, Shujaath Asif, Anupama Mauskar, Preeti Shanbag  

Septic pulmonary emboli secondary to disseminated, community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

Bülent Karapınar, Dilek Yılmaz Çiftdogan, Nuri Bayram, Semih Aydogdu, Fadıl Vardar

Congenital malaria due to Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum in a neonate

Sudip Saha, Kalpana Dutta, Swagata Panja, Gautam Lahiri

Disseminated cerebral tuberculosis in an immunocompetent adolescent boy

Vania Giacomet, Silvia Beretta, Alessandra Viganò, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti