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A cohort of 549 internationally adopted children greater than and equal to" 3 months of age (mean age, 22.9 months; range, 1.2 200 months) was evaluated at Cincinnati Children's Hospital between 1999 and 2004, with a post-adoption health visit within two months (mean, 12 days) after arrival in the United States.
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In France, 750 patients from 12 hospitals participated in a concealed, randomized, multicenter, evaluator-blinded, parallel-group trial (the Cathedia study) conducted between 2004 and 2007.
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Data on cancer incidence in the HIV-infected population were derived from the CDC-sponsored Adult and Adolescent Spectrum of HIV Disease Project (ASD) conducted in 11 geographic areas, as well as from the HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS) conducted in eight US cities.
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Recently, authors from the University of Wisconsin Medical School asked what is the risk of infection associated with nasal colonization with Staphylococcus aureus.
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By 1998, community-acquired (ca) cases appeared among young children and are now widely documented, representing 15%-74% of Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infections in US emergency departments.
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The impact of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) was studied using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, which is the largest source of inpatient data in the United States and drawn from about 1000 community hospitals.
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A retrospective, cohort study of 200 episodes randomly selected from 315 episodes, during 2000-2003, at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, of laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infections among out-patient children with central venous catheters was performed to determine the optimum duration of antibiotic therapy before infection could be reliably excluded.
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In this study, 100 consecutive patients, who were receiving several different cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens for a variety of cancers, were self-referred on the basis of perception of mucositis, elevated temperature at home, malaise, or were referred by a nurse based on assessment of potential infection or mucositis.
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A blinded, prospective, case-control study of 40 children meeting all of the DSM-IV criteria for PANDAS matched with 40 children with obsessive-compulsive disorder and/or a chronic tic disorder was conducted with periodic intensive laboratory testing for group A streptococcus for 2 years, especially with clinical exacerbations or acute illness.
