kwashiorkor/fever

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of antioxidant supplementation in preventing kwashiorkor in a population of Malawian children at high risk of developing kwashiorkor. METHODS Prospective, double blind, placebo controlled trial randomised by household. METHODS 8 villages in rural southern

OBJECTIVE To investigate the response of serum interleukin-1 (IL-1) and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) to infection of malnourished patients. METHODS Prospective observational study. METHODS Paediatric clinics of Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Medicine,

BACKGROUND Severe acute malnutrition is a serious public health problem, and a challenge to clinicians. Why some children with malnutrition develop oedema (kwashiorkor) is not well understood. The objective of this study was to investigate socio-demographic, dietary and clinical correlates of

In Kapalowe rural health district, hospitalisation of malnourished children is restricted to complicated cases; once the complication is under control or eliminated, the child's treatment is continued at home, based on a 13 weeks contract, between parents and health centre. The parents commit

The clinical and serological responses to attenuated measles virus vaccine were compared in 35 severely malnourished and 35 well-nourished children. A third group of severely malnourished children, who received an injection of vitamin B12, served as controls. The children were observed for three

A non-agglutinable Vibrio cholerae strain isolated from the blood of a child with kwashiorkor and fever was shown to have the potential to invade as well as to produce a toxin resembling cholera toxin.

Defense mechanisms employed by the host to fight infection are highly dependent on adequate protein synthesis to support phagocytic and lymphoid cell activity as well as immunoglobulin production. Interleukin I is a small, not yet fully characterized protein produced by macrophages which appears to

Campylobacter fetus was isolated from five recent cases of human vibriosis, of which two were adults and three were children. One adult presented with pericarditis and the other with recurrent pyrexia. Campylobacter fetus subsp. intestinalis which resembled cattle strains serologically, was isolated

A 7-month-old infant presented at a tertiary centre with a 6-day history of a skin rash, fever and diarrhoea. Clinical features included pyrexia, kwashiorkor, extensive ulcerating skin lesions suggestive of ecthyma gangrenosum, hepatomegaly, meningismus, neutropenia and iron deficiency anaemia.

The ability of human endogenous pyrogen (EP) harvested from malnourished patients (marasmic or kwashiorkor-like) to induce fever and a simultaneous hypoferremia in rabbits is described. Human peripheral blood leukocytes were obtained from malnourished adult patients before total parenteral nutrition

One hundred and seventy five malnourished children aged between 1(1/2) and 12 years attending pediatric department of Regional Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital, Imphal from January 2001 to June 2002 were screened for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection along with their biological

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly has a different clinical presentation than CAP in other age groups. Confusion, alteration of functional physical capacity, and decompensation of underlying illnesses may appear as unique manifestations. Malnutrition is also an associated feature of

It is pointed out how infections can delay growth and development through an aggressive and long-standing action, through direct action of an infecting agent (virus, bacteria, parasites). or through sequelae in main organs (brain, kidney, growth cartilage, muscular system, etc.). how infections

The pre-dietary rehabilitation levels of acute phase proteins (APP) namely, alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT), orosomucoid (ORO), haptoglobin (HAP), fibrinogen (FIB) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in the plasma of Sudanese children with severe protein energy malnutrition (PEM) were compared with those of