Kawasaki Disease and Peripheral Gangrene in Infancy.

Introduction: Early diagnosis and treatment of Kawasaki disease as the most common cause of acquired heart disease in childhood, may significantly improve the prognosis. Diagnosing infantile Kawasaki (younger than a year) is difficult because of obscure symptoms; at the same time they are at the higher risk of coronary abnormalities.

Case Presentation: We report three infants with prolonged (more than 5 days) fever and peripheral gangrene without any other clinical manifestations of Kawasaki disease.

Can Children Enhance Their Family's Health Knowledge? An Infectious Disease Prevention Program.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to propose an innovative method of knowledge transfer that aims to improve health literacy about pediatric infectious diseases prevention in families. Children have an appreciable role in this scheme.

Methods: This study is a before and after trial that has been conducted in Hamedan in 2009.

Incidence of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli isolated from young children with diarrhoea in the west of Iran.

Diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) represents a main group of enteric pathogens that cause human diarrhoea. Because it is not simply distinguished from normal flora by simple laboratory methods, modern molecular diagnostic assays are necessary. Although it is neither necessary nor applicable to perform PCR for all patients, it is of many advantages to verify the prevalence of DEC in different areas by this method.