Screening for infectious diseases among asylum seekers newly arrived in Germany in 2015: a systematic single-centre analysis.

Objectives: During the migrant crisis in 2015, Germany was the largest single recipient of new asylum seekers in Europe. The German asylum law requires a screening examination for certain infectious diseases in asylum seekers upon arrival. The aim of this work was to analyse the rate of certain infectious diseases among asylum seekers screened at a reception centre in Southern Germany.

[Motivation for Prevention in Childhood as a Basis for long-Term Dental Health: The Augsburg Model].

Oral health promotion programs have been shown to be more effective the earlier they are started. In the city of Augsburg, the activities of the School Dental Service were replaced by a cooperation model in 2001, which provides a reasonable combination of group and individual dental prophylaxis. Three epidemiological evaluations show continuously increasing rates of natural healthy primary teeth in preschool children of all population groups.

Overweight and obesity in children starting school in Augsburg: prevalence and influencing factors.

Introduction: A comprehensive approach to the prevention of overweight and obesity requires identifying the socioeconomic and cultural factors involved. This study set out to determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children starting school in Augsburg, Germany. Another aim was to examine influencing factors and any associations between the findings and the children's first language.

Congenital intracerebral teratoma: a rare differential diagnosis in newborn hydrocephalus.

Congenital hydrocephalus is caused by a broad spectrum of underlying disorders. In the majority of cases it is due to aqueductal stenosis and other distinct congenital anomalies, like Arnold-Chiari malformation. Nevertheless, in the differential diagnosis rare conditions such as cerebral malignancies must also be considered.

[Extra-cerebral intracranial fluid collections in childhood: differentiation between benign subarachnoid space enlargement and subdural effusion using color-coded duplex ultrasound].

Background: Extracerebral fluid collections in infancy are a common diagnostic problem, because by noninvasive imaging studies (including cranial ultrasonography, CT and NMR), no definite differentiation between two distinct pathological conditions can be found until today: An enlargement of the subarachnoid spaces in children with macrocephaly is a frequent observation of mostly unknown etiology but is known to be associated with a good prognosis. If surgery is necessary in these patients, ventricular shunting is required. On the other hand subdural effusions are often of traumatic origin and require frequently neurosurgical intervention (subdural shunting).