Bulging fontanel during a measles infection
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Transient bulging fontanelle after measles vaccination.
INDIAN PEDIATRICS 673 VOLUME 51__AUGUST 15, 2014 A 9-month-old girl weighing 6.4 Kg presented with fever and three episodes of vomiting for one day. The infant was administered measles vaccine 10 hours prior to onset of fever. Vitamin A was not given. On examination, the infant was febrile (101oF) and had a bulging, tense and pulsatile anterior fontanelle measuring 3 cm. Systemic examination, i...
متن کاملCell-mediated immunity during natural measles infection.
Natural measles causes prolonged depression of cell-mediated immunity yet little is known as to how the infection influences lymphocyte function. Therefore, we studied the properties and function of lymphocytes during and after measles. The number and proportion of circulating thymus-derived lymphocytes was low during the acute stage of measles, and at this time 37% of these cells showed positi...
متن کاملDynamics of viral RNA synthesis during measles virus infection.
We propose a reference model of the kinetics of a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (vRdRp) activities and its regulation during infection of eucaryotic cells. After measles virus infects a cell, mRNAs from all genes immediately start to accumulate linearly over the first 5 to 6 h and then exponentially until approximately 24 h. The change from a linear to an exponential accumulation correlate...
متن کاملSevere Measles Infection
France has recently witnessed a nationwide outbreak of measles. Data on severe forms of measles in adults are lacking. We sought to describe the epidemiologic, clinical, treatment, and prognostic aspects of the disease in adult patients who required admission to an intensive care unit (ICU). We performed a retrospective analysis of a cohort of 36 adults admitted to a total of 64 ICUs throughout...
متن کاملAnterior fontanel size.
Anterior fontanel size was determined in a cross-sectional study of 445 infants ranging in age from newborn period to 2 years. The mean anterior fontanel size in neonates was 3.37 +/- 0.61 cm which decreased to 0.37 +/- 0.06 cm in 24 months age group. The age of closure of anterior fontanel was 12, 18 and 24 months in 40%, 70.4% and 91.3%, respectively.
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: GERMS
سال: 2020
ISSN: 2248-2997
DOI: 10.18683/germs.2020.1231