Systemic lupus erythematosus in children: a case report and review.

A 12-year-old Papua New Guinean female presented initially with nonspecific clinical symptoms, fever of unknown origin and anaemia. She subsequently developed multisystem disease involving the respiratory, gastrointestinal, central nervous, musculoskeletal and cutaneous systems. She was diagnosed to have systemic lupus erythromatosus (SLE) and started on treatment.

High rates of Chlamydia trachomatis infections in young Papua New Guinean infants.

Objective: Determine the importance of Chlamydia trachomatis in the etiology of severe infection in young Papua New Guinean infants.

Methods: Between March, 1991, and April, 1993, children <3 months old were recruited as outpatients at Goroka Base Hospital, Papua New Guinea, as part of a multicenter study in four developing countries. Children with predefined inclusion criteria were enrolled.

Bacterial and viral etiology of severe infection in children less than three months old in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

Objective: Determine the bacterial and viral etiology of severe infection in young Papua New Guinean infants as part of a multicenter study in four developing countries aimed at improving case management guidelines.

Methods: Between March, 1991, and April, 1993, children aged <3 months were recruited at the outpatient department of Goroka Base Hospital, Papua New Guinea (PNG). Children with pre-defined inclusion criteria were enrolled, a history was taken and clinical examination was performed.

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in Papua New Guinea: a high incidence in young children.

Eighty-seven cases of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) were diagnosed from September 1988 to April 1991 in Papua New Guinea (PNG), by demonstration of high-titre measles-specific antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). For 1990 the annual incidence of SSPE, for the study provinces, was calculated to be 56 cases per million under 20 years of age and it is expected that this figure will be higher in 1991. The mean age of presentation was 4.