Varicella meningitis with concomitant genital shingles in an adolescent.

This case describes an uncommon presentation of herpes zoster in an adolescent with viral meningitis and concomitant genital shingles. A 15-year-old immunocompetent girl with background of well-controlled Graves' disease presented with 3 days of fever, frontal headache, terminal neck stiffness and photophobia. This was preceded by 4 days of pain and itch over vaginal and anal region.

The Influence of Ethnicity on Exclusively Breast-Fed Infants' Anthropometry in a Multiethnic Asian Population.

Introduction: We studied the effects of ethnicity on early infant growth patterns in exclusively breast-fed (EBF) infants from a Singaporean multiethnic population. This was a prospective cohort study conducted in National University Hospital, Singapore.

Materials And Methods: Healthy, EBF infants born at-term completing 37 weeks and above, and whose birthweight was appropriate for gestational age (>10 centile, <90 centile) were recruited.