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Matern Child Nutr 2021 Mar 4:e13166. Epub 2021 Mar 4.

The Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

The WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life. However, the transition of the infants' diet to partial breastfeeding with the addition of animal milks and/or solids typically occurs earlier than this. Here, we explored factors associated with the timing of an early transition to partial breastfeeding across seven sites of a birth cohort study in which twice weekly information on infant feeding practices was collected. Read More

Cureus 2021 Jan 26;13(1):e12917. Epub 2021 Jan 26.

Family Medicine Residency Program, Medical Education, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, QAT.

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. Initially, infected patients presented with fever, nonproductive cough, dyspnea, myalgia, shortness of breath, and radiographic evidence of pneumonia. However, others presented with atypical cardiac manifestation. Read More

BJOG 2021 Feb 27. Epub 2021 Feb 27.

Department of Paediatrics, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.

A 27-year-old woman (gravida 2, para 1) was transported to the regional university hospital in gestational week (GW) 34 + 4 due to a three-day history of fever, abdominal pain and reduced foetal movements. She had developed a dry cough one day prior to the admission (Figure S1). The woman, was slightly overweight (BMI 27 kg/m ) but otherwise healthy. Read More

Perm J 2021 Jan;25

The Permanente Medical Group Inc, Sacramento, CA.

Introduction: Ketoacidosis is a metabolic condition caused by the buildup of ketone bodies. The most common causes are diabetes, alcoholism, and starvation. This is a case of a lactating mother on a ketogenic diet who developed a community-acquired pneumonia and then went into life-threatening ketoacidosis. Read More

Trop Biomed 2020 Dec;37(4):1117-1123

Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) and pulmonary tuberculosis infection (PTB) are important opportunistic infections in HIV-infected patients. The diagnosis remains challenging since Pneumocystis jirovecii cannot be cultured, and expectorated-sputum is frequently difficult to obtain. The monoclonal-antibody detection for P. Read More