Clinical and Laboratory Potential Predictors of Blood Culture Positivity in Under Five Children with Clinically Severe Pneumonia - Khartoum -Sudan.

Background: Blood culture is necessary for appropriate management of clinically severe pneumonia in children under five years of age. However, in limited resource countries it might be unduly costly and waste of valuable time because of the high negative culture rate.

Objectives: This study aims to identify clinical and laboratory parameters that potentially predict a positive blood culture in cases of severe pneumonia.

Case report: congenital salivary gland analage tumor presenting with neonatal respiratory distress.

Stridor in the newborn is not an unusual entity. This article describes a rare presentation of neonatal respiratory distress caused by a benign nasopharyngeal salivary gland analage tumor.