Management of newborns at increased risk for early-onset sepsis in perinatology department.

Introduction: Assessing newborn infants at risk for early-onset sepsis (EOS) is a common clinical task conducted by pediatricians. A change in the internal protocol for managing neonates at risk was implemented in 2016. Unlike the previous protocol, which determined laboratory testing in asymptomatic newborns in the presence of one risk factor (RF) for sepsis; the new protocol advocates the screening in the presence of at least two RF.

[Human tail: rare lesion with occult spinal dysraphism].

Human tails can be classified as either true tails or pseudotails. True human tails are rare clinical entities. We describe a newborn with a midline sacral cutaneous appendage.

Aerococcus viridans urinary tract infection in a pediatric patient with secondary pseudohypoaldosteronism.

Aerococcus viridans is a catalase-negative gram-positive bacterium rarely found as human pathogen. Some cases of urinary tract infection (UTI) have been described in immunocompromised adults. In this article we describe a UTI case caused by this agent in a child with severe obstructive uropathy, clinically presented with secondary pseudohypoaldosteronism (SPHA).