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Researching the Experiences of Children with Cancer: Considerations for Practice
(Children-Basel, 2019-08)
Children and adolescents with cancer often participate in medical and psychosocial research throughout their diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, this involvement frequently extends into the survivorship period. Sometimes ...
Randomized Controlled Trial of the Safety and Immunogenicity of Revaccination With Tetanus-Diphtheria-Acellular Pertussis Vaccine (Tdap) in Adults 10 Years After a Previous Dose
(Journal of the Pediatric Infectiouos Diseases Society, 2019-06)
Background. Reduced-antigen-content tetanus, diphtheria, and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccine is recommended in many countries for boosting immunity in adolescents and adults. Although immunity to these antigens wanes ...
Serologic Detection of Antibodies Targeting the Leukocidin LukAB Strongly Predicts Staphylococcus aureus in Children With Invasive Infection
(JOURNAL OF THE PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY, 2019-06)
Background. Staphylococcus aureus is among the most commonly identified causes of invasive bacterial infection in children; however, reliable results from cultures of sterile-site samples often cannot be obtained, which ...
Longer Breastfeeding Associated with Childhood Anemia in Rural South-Eastern Nigeria
(International Journal of Pedicatrics, 2019)
Introduction. Child mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa is 29 times higher than that in industrialized countries. Anemia is one of the preventable causes of child morbidity. During a humanitarian medical mission in rural ...
Agreement Between Two Procalcitonin Assays in Hospitalized Children
(Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2019-09)
Introduction Agreement between available procalcitonin (PCT) assays is unclear. We sought to compare concordance between Roche and bioMerieux PCT assays using pediatric samples. Methods We evaluated 213 plasma samples from ...