The challenges of counselling in paediatric AIDS.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Biomedical subjects
A A Orogade
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Changing patterns in sensitivity of causative organisms of septicaemia in children: the need for quinolones.
A review of the pattern, and antibiotic sensitivities of blood culture isolates over a 3 year period in children presenting to the Paediatric Unit of Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna is reported. Positive blood culture isolates were obtained in 26.9% of 1,982 children. The most prevalent isolates were Staphylococcus aureus (59.9%), Escherichia coli (16.9%) and Klebsiella (16.3%). There was a striking paucity of isolation of Salmonella typhi (1.3%) and Streptococcus. Sensitivity to commonly used drugs like ampicillin/cloxacillin, genticin, ceftazidime and chloramphenicol was low (8.0-50.0%), with a corresponding delayed fever resolution and prolonged hospital stay. 31.0-83.3% of the isolates were highly sensitive to pefloxacin, norfloxacin and ofloxacin, which were not generally recommended for use in paediatric patients. In two patients with no response to commonly used antibiotics, use of quinolones lysed their fever within 48 hours. This change of antibiotic sensitivity patterns calls for a thorough investigation into the potential role of these quinolones in paediatric chemotherapeutics either singly or in appropriate combinations with existing antibiotics.
Adolescent↗
Congenital icthyosiform--a case report.
Congenital icthyosis is a rare group of disorders of keratinisation. A case of this condition is reported in order to highlight the clinical features and essential components of management: resuscitation, skincare, nutrition and counselling. This case is reported in order to appraise clinicians of its presence because there was delay in the diagnosis and management due to non-recognition.
Counseling↗