Counselling on sun protection, a survey of French paediatricians.

Background: High sun exposure during childhood is an important risk factor for skin cancers at adulthood. Paediatricians are first in line to provide sun protection (SP) information.

Objective: To describe paediatricians' attitudes towards SP counselling and compare French and American paediatricians' behaviours.

Comparison of two dosages of azithromycin for three days versus penicillin V for ten days in acute group A streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis.

Background: Three-day, 10 mg/kg/day azithromycin (AZM) studies in pediatric acute group A streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis have shown contradictory bacteriologic results. This study investigates the efficacy and tolerability of two dosages of 3-day azithromycin (20 mg/kg/day and 10 mg/kg/day) compared with 10-day penicillin V.

Methods: This was a prospective, comparative, randomized, multicenter trial.

Impact of antimicrobial therapy on nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Branhamella catarrhalis in children with respiratory tract infections.

We conducted a multicenter prospective study to document changes in nasopharyngeal carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Branhamella catarrhalis during antibiotic therapy. A cohort of 629 children with respiratory tract infections underwent nasopharyngeal sampling before and after antibiotic treatment. Susceptibility testing, serotyping, arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis were used to compare pretreatment and posttreatment strains of S.