Epidemiological and clinical features of acute symptomatic hepatitis type B were evaluated in 51 otherwise healthy children and in 13 children receiving immunosuppressive treatment for leukaemia and malignancy, who were admitted to hospital with acute hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive hepatitis during a period of 7 years. Blood transfusions, or intimate contacts with asymptomatic HBs...

Atopic is the most common of the dermatitides seen in infancy and childhood, but there are numerous other diseases that can mimic the skin findings. These include seborrheic dermatitis, immunodeficiency, and psoriasis in infancy; scabies, tinea corporis infection, perioral, nummular, contact, and molluscum dermatitis in childhood. It is sometimes extremely difficult to differentiate between ich...

Lethal trait A46, also known as bovine hereditary zinc deficiency, Adema disease, and hereditary parakeratosis, is an autosomal recessive disorder first described in 1964, with a clinical presentation similar to that of acrodermatitis enteropathica (AE) in humans. The molecular basis of the defect has not been previously identified. Recently, the basic defect in AE was found to lie in SLC39A4. ...

Acrodermatitis continua of Hallopeau (ACH) is a rare manifestation of pustular psoriasis which may considerably disable affected patients. In this case report we confirm the efficacy of acitretin in the treatment of ACH and, in addition, describe the course of the myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) from which the patient was suffering. During acitretin treatment, there was a transformation into acu...

Cutaneous manifestations of Lyme borreliosis in Europe include erythema migrans (EM) and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA); the most common non-cutaneous manifestations are Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB) and Lyme arthritis. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the gender distribution of patients with these clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis. Data on gender were obtained from ...

This is a further note on the (Guass-Maxwell) force-flux construct proposed previously (Goddard, J.D., A note on Eringen’s moment balances, Int. J. Eng. Sci., in the press, 2011). Motivated in part by its promise as a homogenization technique for constructing micromorphic continua, the present work is focused rather on some additional representations and on novel applications, such as the deriv...

Gianotti-Crosti syndrome (papular acrodermatitis of childhood), which was first described in 1955, is a nonspecific rash that usually consists of the abrupt onset of pink flesh coloring, smooth or lichenoid, flat-topped papules. It was first related to hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection; however, cases not associated with HBV infection were reported as well. Although a type of delayed hypersensi...

We i n vestigate the set of open maps from one Knaster continuum to another. A structure theorem for the semigroup of open induced maps on a Knaster continuum is obtained. Homeomorphisms w h i c h are not induced are constructed, and it is shown that the induced open maps are dense in the space of open maps between two Knaster continua. Results about the structure of the semigroup of open maps ...