A Review of Coronaviruses Associated With Kawasaki Disease: Possible Implications for Pathogenesis of the Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Associated With COVID-19.

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), representing a new entity in the spectrum of manifestations of COVID-19, bears symptomatic resemblance with Kawasaki Disease (KD). This review explores the possible associations between KD and the human coronaviruses and discusses the pathophysiological similarities between KD and MIS-C and proposes implications for the pathogenesis of MIS-C in COVID-19. Since 2005, when a case-control study demonstrated the association of a strain of human coronavirus with KD, several studies have provided evidence regarding the association of different strains of the human coronaviruses with KD.

Clinical features and outcomes of critically ill patients with Elizabethkingia meningoseptica: an emerging pathogen.

Background: Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, formerly known as Chryseobacterium meningosepticum, is a non-motile, non-fastidious, catalase and oxidase-positive, aerobic, glucosenon- fermentative, Gram-negative bacillus that was first defined by Elizabeth O. King in 1959. It has emerged as an opportunistic pathogen that has infected patients in extreme age groups and immunocompromised individuals, especially in intensive care settings.

A founder splice site mutation leads to retinitis punctata albescens in two inbred Pakistani kindreds.

: Retinitis punctate albescens (RPA) is a rare form of retinal dystrophy characterized by congenital stationary night blindness and a characteristic fundus appearance. Missense or nonsense mutations in in homozygous or heterozygous state have been implicated in .: Two consanguineous Pakistani kindreds with the highly variable manifestation of RPA were studied.