Volume 1, Number 1, Year 2006


Editorial Article
Hüseyin Çaksen
A new journal in the field of child infectious diseases: Journal of Pediatric Infectious Diseases


Itzhak Brook
Prescription practices in acute pediatric infections and their implications on the worldwide antimicrobial resistance


Review Articles
Kevin Purcell and Jaime Fergie
The epidemic of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection in children: Implications for community and hospital practice


Peter Charles McMinn
The emergence of enterovirus 71 as a major cause of acute neurological disease in young children of the Asia-Pacific region


Original Articles
Farideh Shiva, Abdul-Latif Eidikhani, and Mojgan Padyab
Prescription practices in acute pediatric infections


Pascal M. Lavoie, Ana Carceller, Monique Robert, Marc H. Lebel, Dorothy L. Moore, and Selim Rashed
Malaria in immigrant and traveler children: Clinical presentation and risk factors for complications


Xuan Qin, Carla R. Clausen, Jennifer R. Stapp, Treva Tsosie, Scott J. Weissman, and Kristy D. Seidel
A temporal disc co-diffusion method detects piperacillin-tazobactam resistance in Serratia marcescens isolates reportedly susceptible by conventional methods


Eduardo de Oliveira Duque-Estrada, Marcelo Duarte, and Jones Ribeiro
Pyogenic liver abscess in children


Case Reports
Ira Shah
HIV associated arthropathy and response to antiretroviral therapy in a HIV-1 infected child


Enke Grabhorn, Cornelia Englert, Benjamin Geisler, and Rainer Ganschow
Severe systemic disorder in a 5 months old child: A case of early systemic lupus erythematosus?


Ira Shah
Parvovirus infection in a setting of Rh incompatibility


Letter to the Editor
Cahide Yılmaz, Abdurrahman Üner, Mehmet Erol, Ahmet Sami Güven, and Hüseyin Çaksen
Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia following DTP and poliomyelitis immunization


Announcements 2006