Volume 4, Number 4, Year 2009


Editorial
Gaetano Chirico and Sara Chiappa
Genetic polymorphisms and susceptibility to infection in neonates


Review Articles
Brooke E. Gilliam, Melinda R. Reed, Reema H. Syed, and Terry L. Moore
Rheumatic manifestations of Epstein-Barr virus in children


Melinda R. Reed, Brooke E. Gilliam, Reema H. Syed, and Terry L. Moore
Rheumatic manifestations of parvovirus B19 in children


Alexander K.C. Leung, James D. Kellner, and H. Dele Davies
Chickenpox: An update


Georgia Gioula and Vassiliki Kyriazopoulou-Dalaina
Human metapneumovirus and pediatric patients: A mini review


Original Articles
Hesham Abdel-Hady, Mohamed El-Naggar, Ghada El-Nady, Rawia Badr, and Medhat El-Daker
Genetic polymorphisms of IL-6-174 and IL-10-1082 in full term neonates with late onset blood stream infections


Almudena Blanco, Roberta Nardacci, Franca Del Nonno, Francesco Callea, Paola Francalanci, Mauro Piacentini, and Ma Ángeles Muñoz Fernández
Different profiles of apoptosis and activation in children with progressive or static HIV-related encephalopathy


Shahnaz Armin, Delara Babaie, Abdollah Karimi, and Fatemeh Fallah
Toxigenic Clostridium difficile colonization in children


Nilmini Chandrasena, Shaman Rajindrajith, Kamruddin Ahmed, Arunachalam Pathmeswaran, and Osamu Nakagomi
Hospital-based study of the severity and economic burden associated with rotavirus diarrhea in Sri Lanka


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, and Coleen K. Cunningham
Identifying HIV-infected children who may benefit from early initiation of antiretrovirals


Ceyda Acun, Asra Tanveer, Elsie Lee, Mohamed Mohamed, An Massaro, Tarek A. Hammad, and Hany Aly
ABO phenotype and sepsis in very low birth infants


Case Reports
Rashed A. Hasan, Vineet K. Gupta, and Walid Abuhammour
Isolated herpes simplex virus pneumonia in children


Ayumi Endo, Tatsuo Fuchigami, Yuki Imai, Wakako Ishii, Chikako Arakawa, Ryutaro Kohira, Yukihiko Fujita, Hiroyuki Izumi, and Hideo Mugishima
A case of acute transverse myelitis due to measles virus


Alice C.B. Setti, Philip T. Mannion, and Peter R. Stutchfield
Liver abscess and respiratory disease caused by anginosus group streptococci


Syed Ahmed Zaki, Deepak Dadge, Shujaath Asif, Anupama Mauskar, and Preeti Shanbag
Pseudotumor cerebri: A rare complication of varicella


Bülent Karapınar, Dilek Yılmaz Çiftdogan, Nuri Bayram, Semih Aydogdu, and Fadıl Vardar
Septic pulmonary emboli secondary to disseminated, community-acquired, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection


Sudip Saha, Kalpana Dutta, Swagata Panja, and Gautam Lahiri
Congenital malaria due to Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum in a neonate


Vania Giacomet, Silvia Beretta, Alessandra Viganò, and Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti
Disseminated cerebral tuberculosis in an immunocompetent adolescent boy