Length of hospital stay not affected by empirical treatment with ceftriaxone versus cefuroxime for bacteraemia.

Aim: The preferred antibiotic treatment for bacteraemia in infants continues to be debated. We examined the duration of hospital stays as a surrogate for the effectiveness of initial treatment with ceftriaxone versus cefuroxime.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of the medical records of all infants aged 3-36 months, admitted with suspected occult bacteraemia to the paediatric department at Laniado Hospital, Israel, between 2016 and 2022.

Bacterial resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics was rare among children hospitalised for clinical dysentery.

Aim: Temporal changes in common pathogens that cause clinical dysentery have been described in Europe. We aimed to describe the distribution of pathogens and their antibiotic resistance in hospitalised Israeli children.

Methods: This study retrospectively studied children hospitalised for clinical dysentery, with or without a positive stool culture, from 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2019.

[A CASE OF MALARIA IN A CHILD RETURNING FROM ETHIOPIA].

Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the Plasmodium protozoa and transmitted by the female Anopheles mosquitos. Delayed diagnosis or treatment could evolve to life threatening complications and mortality that typically occur in children or travelers to endemic areas. In this article, we describe a case of a 6 year old healthy child, who travelled with his family to an endemic area in Ethiopia.

Convulsions in children hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis.

The study aim was to examine possible correlates of convulsions in children hospitalized for acute gastroenteritis (AGE). Data collected in a prospective study of AGE hospitalizations in children aged 0-59 months in 3 hospitals in Israel during 2008-2015 were analyzed. Stool samples were tested for rotavirus using immunochromatography and stool culture was performed for the detection of Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter We compared clinical and demographic characteristics of children hospitalized for AGE who had convulsions (n = 68, cases) with children hospitalized for AGE without convulsions (n = 3505, controls).

COVID-19 in a Subset of Hospitalized Children in Israel.

Background: Most pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is mild. We assessed nationally severe COVID-19, including pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS), in hospitalized children.

Methods: An ongoing, prospective, national surveillance was conducted from March 2020 through March 2021, at 20 hospitals treating children <18 years across Israel (~75% of Israeli hospitals).