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In adults, symptoms included severe headache, confusion, and aphasia. Illness onset in adults varied from 4 to 23 days postvaccination, was similar to that in children, and was longer than that seen with YEL-AVD.75 In both groups, CSF contains up to 500 cells/μL (predominantly lymphocytic...
Colchicine is generally safe in children, although colchicine pharmacokinetics may differ in younger patients, and doses adjusted for body weight may be greater in children than those used in adults. The recommended adult colchicine dose is 1.2 to 1.8 mg/day. Dosage should be started as low as...
Bacteremia is relatively uncommon in patients with gastroenteritis, except in infants (who also can have meningitis) and older adults. However, S. Choleraesuis, S. Typhimurium, and S. Heidelberg, among others, can cause a sustained and frequently lethal bacteremic syndrome lasting ≥ 1 week, wi...
Children acquire the infection from adults who have active disease and are expectorating tubercle bacilli. Children themselves are non-contagious. Therefore every effort should be made to identify the adult source for eradicating the source. Neonatal TB occurs through transmission of infection from ...
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and recreational habits of the individual or group of individuals. In highly endemic areas where transmission occurs every year, such as with Japanese encephalitis and dengue viruses, flavivirus infection is seen primarily in children, with adults protected by the antibody from previous infections [54...
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In children, YEL-AND was characterized by the onset of fever and seizures,obtundation,meningismus, andparesis7 to 21 days after immunization. In adults, symptoms included severe headache, confusion, andaphasia. Illness onset in adults varied from 4 to 23 days postvaccination, was similar to th...
This decade has seen a resurgence of yellow fever (YF) that has also affected travelers with a record number of international travelers infected by YF virus including the first documented importation of YF into Asia. Recent Findings The recent resurgence of YF has been attributed largely to sub-...