Table of Contents
Cover
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Contents
Contents | |
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Editorial
A global consensus on the prevention and management of nutritional rickets: How does this change policy in South Africa? | |
John M Pettifor | 3-4 |
Short Reports
Mothers’ reasons for refusing to give consent to do HIV testing and the outcome in the children | |
Nancy Shipalana, T S Ntuli | 5-7 |
A comparison of clinician and caregiver assessment of functioning in patients attending a child and adolescent mental health clinic in Nigeria | |
Adeniran O Okewole, Mobolaji U Dada, Mashudat Bello-Mojeed, Oluyemi C Ogun | 8-11 |
Research
Prevalence of positive coeliac serology in a cohort of South African children with type 1 diabetes mellitus | |
Shafeeka Tayob, Kazeem Pillay, B Tlou, Y Ganie | 12-15 |
Effect of community integrated management of childhood illness on mothers’ healthcare-seeking behaviour and home management of childhood illness in Ile Ife, South-West Nigeria: A household survey | |
Olorunfemi Akinbode Ogundele, Tolulope Ogundele, Olalere Samuel Olajide, Olalekan Isaiah Agunbiade | 16-19 |
Audiological findings in a group of neurologically compromised children: A retrospective study | |
Katijah Khoza-Shangase, Lorna Jacklin | 20-24 |
Risks for communication delays and disorders in infants in an urban primary healthcare clinic | |
Dirkje Claassen, Joanette Pieterse, Jeannie van der Linde, Esedra Kruger, Bart Vinck | 25-28 |
Haemophilia: A disease of women as well | |
Thirona Naicker, Colleen Aldous, Rajendra Thejpal | 29-32 |
Serious bacterial infections in febrile young children: Lack of value of biomarkers | |
Maria Karsas, Piet Becker, Robin Green | 33-36 |
Selected facets of nutrition during the first 1 000 days of life in vulnerable South African communities | |
Lisanne du Plessis, Martha G Herselman, Mildred H McLachlan, Johanna H Nel | 37-42 |
A 3-year survey of acute poisoning exposures in infants reported in telephone calls made to the Tygerberg Poison Information Centre, South Africa | |
Carine J Marks, D J van hoving | 43-46 |
Exploring sibling attitudes towards participation when the younger sibling has a severe speech and language disability | |
Maryke Hansen, Michal Harty, Juan Bornman | 47-51 |
Childhood and adolescent fatalities at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory: 2005 - 2009 | |
G van den Ordel, Lorraine du Toit-Prinsloo, G Saayman | 52-56 |
Factors present on admission associated with increased mortality in children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) | |
Candice L Hendricks, N H McKerrow, R J Hendricks | 57-62 |
The association between chronic undernutrition and malaria among Ethiopian children aged 6 - 59 months: A facility-based case-control study | |
Hamid Yimam Hassen, J H Ali | 63-67 |
Epidemiology of paediatric poisoning reporting to a tertiary hospital in Ghana | |
Daniel Ansong, Clara Nkyi, Clement Osei Appiah, Evans Xorse Amuzu, Charles Ayekum Frimpong, Isaac Nyanor, Samuel Blay Nguah, Justice Sylverken | 68-70 |
An exploratory study of the implementation of early intervention workshops for primary caregivers in Johannesburg | |
S Medhurst, Shabnam Abdoola, L Duncan | 71-74 |
Usefulness of ultrasonography and biochemical features in the diagnosis of cholestatic jaundice in infants | |
Michelo S Choopa, C Kock, S O M Manda, A J Terblanche, D F Wittenberg | 75-78 |
An evaluation of the screening for retinopathy of prematurity in very-low-birth-weight babies at a tertiary hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
Zahedah Dadoo, D E Ballot | 79-82 |
Perceptions of community-based human milk banks before and after training in a resource-limited South African setting | |
Heloise E Goodfellow, P Reimers, K Israel-Ballard, A Coutsoudis | 83-86 |
Prevalence and nature of communication delays in a South African primary healthcare context | |
Jeannie van der Linde, de Wet Swanepoel, Jaqui Sommerville, Frances Glascoe, Bart Vinck, E M Louw | 87-91 |
An analysis of national data on care-seeking behaviour by parents of children with suspected pneumonia in Nigeria | |
Mohammed Baba Abdulkadir, Zainab Ajoke Abdulkadir, Wahab Babatunde Rotimi Johnson | 92-95 |
Case Reports
Too much diarrhoea, too many infections, and too few neutrophils | |
T Padayachi, Ismail E Haffejee | 96-98 |
Ecthyma gangrenosum caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a neutropenic leukaemic infant: A case report | |
dillip kumar das, Suprabha Shukla | 99-100 |
CPD Questionnaire
CPD Questionnaire | |
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