Diabetes and Covid Associated Mucormucormycosis-A Cross Sectional Study in Kilpauk Medical College.

Unlabelled: To find the association between CAM and diabetes and correlate the severity of glycemic status,and clinical features and morbidity associated with them.

Material: This descriptive study was conducted at a COVID Ward in govt kilpauk med college from Apr 10, 2021 to Aug 1 0, 2021. All laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases by RTPCR (Real Time Reverse Transcription Polymerse Chain Reaction) nasopharyngeal & throat swab were admitted at this centre.

Ureaplasma urealyticum and its association with chronic lung disease in Asian neonates.

Objective: The aim of the present prospective cohort study was to evaluate the relationship between lower respiratory tract colonization with Ureaplasma urealyticum and development of chronic lung disease (CLD) in a high-risk neonatal population.

Methods: Prospective cohort study of preterm infants with a birthweight < 1,500 g needing mechanical ventilation within 24 h of birth in a tertiary care neonatal unit. Endotracheal aspirates from these infants were cultured within 24 h for U.

Parainfluenza type 3 viral outbreak in a neonatal nursery.

An outbreak of parainfluenza virus type 3 infection that occurred in a special neonatal care unit is described. Birth weights of affected infants ranged from 1860 to 2080 g and gestational ages were between 28 and 32 weeks. Three infants presented with recurrent episodes of apnoea associated with oxygen desaturations on postnatal ages of 16 days, 26 days and 66 days respectively; upper respiratory tract infection symptoms such as coryza were absent in them.

Congenital candidiasis: varied presentations.

Congenital candidiasis, especially the disseminated disease, is very uncommon but has been reported in very low birth weight infants. Five cases of congenital candidiasis, two with cutaneous type and three with systemic type, are described. All cases were symptomatic within the first 24 hours of life and none of them had significant risk factors such as the presence of foreign body in the maternal genital tract.

Is 'herbal health tonic' safe in pregnancy; fetal alcohol syndrome revisited.

So called 'Herbal Health Tonics' are freely available in the market. This has been promoted by the manufacturers for the following symptoms: poor appetite, gastroenteric weakness, poor blood circulation, chills, fatigue, weak constitution and weakness after disease. We report a case of suspected fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).