Pediatrics

• In the Journals

• Children with RSV coinfection may have more severe disease

• March 8, 2013
• Children are commonly infected with more than one virus, and in children with respiratory syncytial virus, this coinfection often leads to increased...More »

• In the Journals

• Timing critical in managing severe pertussis with exchange transfusions

• March 7, 2013
• Exchange blood transfusions to manage conditions like severe pertussis need to be done quickly before organ failure or shock set in, to be most...More »

• CME

• Outlook on RSV: Emerging Science

• Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) represents a significant disease burden in infants, young children, and adults. Available treatment is limited and is mainly supportive. Physicians should be aware…...More »
• This activity is supported by an educational grant from MedImmune.

• In the Journals

• Vitamin D deficiency increased rate of ear and gastrointestinal infections

• February 28, 2013
• More than 50% of children were either vitamin D deficient or insufficient in a recent study, and those children were more likely to have ear infections...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• HMPV prevalent among children older than 1 year

• Infectious Diseases in Children, March 2013
• Human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, is a common cause of illness among young children, according to research published online.
  Study researcher John V....More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• New AOM scale may provide better measure for clinical diagnosis

• February 7, 2013
• A scale that uses images to grade acute otitis media severity may provide another avenue for clinical research and aid in telemedicine applications,...More »

• In the Journals

• M. pneumoniae IgM higher in children with asthma

• February 6, 2013
• Mycoplasma pneumoniae may play a key role in pediatric asthma, according to study data published online.
  Tamar A. Smith-Norowitz, PhD, of the department of...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• Bulging tympanic membrane more common in bilateral AOM

• February 1, 2013
• Clinicians should consider the symptoms of a child with acute otitis media combined with otoscopic findings as an indication of severity and focus less on...More »

• In the Journals Perspective

• RSV subtype B appears less harmful than subtype A

• Infectious Diseases in Children, March 2013
• The A subtype of respiratory syncytial virus may be more virulent than the B subtype, but more data are needed, according to results of a study published...More »

• In the Journals

• Prevalent form of coronavirus linked to URTI

• January 29, 2013
• One of the more prevalent forms of coronavirus, HCoV-OC43, mainly caused upper respiratory illness in a population of pediatric patients in Montreal, but...More »

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