[PDF] Top 20 Respiratory infections in children up to two years of age on prophylaxis with palivizumab

... Objective: To identify the viruses involved in acute respiratory tract infections and to analyze the rates of hospi- talization and death in children on ... See full document

... Children in the age group of 2 months to 5 year admitted with ALRI during the study period were enrolled in the study as ...case of ALRI is defined as per ARI ... See full document

... involved in acute respiratory infections (ARI), which cause high morbidity and mortality in ...grouped in six species (A-F), which are associated with a wide range of ... See full document

... free of charge in health facilities of the National Health Service, following the schedule and technical guidelines of the Portuguese National Vaccination Programme 34 ...C, with high ... See full document

... diagnosis of clinical pneumonia were used: pneumonia, severe pneumonia and very severe pneumonia were defined by clinical signs ...Briefly, children with cough or difficulty breathing and a fast ... See full document

... one of four most common species of organisms that are responsible for most clinically significant infections in ...cause of acute respiratory infections in both ... See full document

... Knowledge on the incidence of childhood accidents according to the child’s stage of development is important for designing preventive programs target- ing each age ...aim of this ... See full document

... literature on infection by Mycoplasma pneumoniae with emphasis on etiological aspects of childhood community-acquired ...10 years with the following keywords: Mycoplasma ... See full document

... Mean age of patients was ...3.87 years. Demographic data were shown in Table 1. In 170 patients ...and in 19 patients (9.9%) QTc2 were equal to QTc1 and 3 patients ...out ... See full document

... one of the commonest causes of morbidity and mortality in children in developing ...Aim of the study was to evaluate children with severe LRTI (pneumonia) ... See full document

... Objective: To report cases of children and adolescents diagnosed with pseudotumor cerebri associated or not with rheumatic ...based on medical reports of 29 patients, ... See full document

... for in vitro replication (7,8) and so far human SaVs have not been isolated in any cell culture ...system. In the last decade, NoVs were recog- nized as one of the major cause of ... See full document

... performed, in which 22 subjects with phono- logical disorder were distributed according to the PCC severity classifi ...occurrence of severe degree was observed; the majority of the ... See full document

... described in terms of their means, medians and standard deviations, while categorical variables were described in terms of their ...according to age group was tested by means ... See full document

... data of children, between 12–16 months, the anthropometric measurements consisted of weight and ...measured on a digital scale (Techline®, São Paulo, Brazil) with the child barefoot, ... See full document

... complicated to design a prospective study where all possible exposure factors are controlled in the ...example, to compare exposure to high vs. low levels of ozone, controlling for low ... See full document

... conducted to assess the prevalence of HRSV in the ALRIs of children admitted to the Hospital de Base (HB) of São José do Rio Preto, a teaching hospital that provides ... See full document

... documented to start in late December and end in late March with regional variability in average start time – ranging from late November and early January in the South and the ... See full document

... lack of validation of the QAI. The majority of inter-rater disagreements arose in the assessment of applicability of criteria E, I, and K to certain studies (similar ... See full document

... To date, Costa Rica’s experience suggests that developing country efforts against acute respiratory infections could focus most profitably on epidemiologic and etio-[r] ... See full document