http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.01.051 0264-410X/ 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Abbreviations: FTT, Failure to thrive; HIC, High income countries; LMIC, Low and middle income countries; MUAC, Mid-upper arm circumference; SAM, Seve malnutrition; UNICEF, The United Nations Children’s F...

Psoriasis affects 0.12% to 0.71% of all chil dren. Erythrodermic pso ria sis is an uncom mon but serious disor der, occur ring in less than 1.5% of cases. Tumor necro sis fac tor-alpha bloc kers (TNF-α) are a new class of drugs used to treat mode ra te to seve re pso ria sis refrac tory to con ven tio nal the ra pies. Etanercept is a TNFα recep tor fusion pro tein, appro ved by the FDA for trea...

Many exper imental and t heoretical stud ies have shown that the use of active sys te ms for moni toring plant biom ass suffers from saturation problems. The possibility of overcoming t his limit by consideri ng a bist ati c configuration is t heoret ically analyzed for the case of su nflower fields. An electromagnetic model , already developed and valid ated on active and pass ive data, has be...

Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, VIC. Christine F McDonald, PhD, FRACP, Deputy Director. Primary Care Respiratory Unit, University of Adelaide, SA. Alan J Crockett, PSM, MPH, Director; and Associate Professor, Department of General Practice. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, NSW. Iven H Young, BSc, MB BS, PhD,...

1Genetics and Genome Biology, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON; 2Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 3Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; 4Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON; 5Hematology/Oncology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Montrea...

Pregnant Women Valérie Lamarre, MD; Nicolas L. Gilbert, MSc; Céline Rousseau, MD; Theresa W. Gyorkos, PhD; William D. Fraser, MD; Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada; Maternel and Infant Health Section, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, CHU Sainte-Justine – University of Mo...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that up to 75 % of milk allergic subjects tolerate heated milk products. However, the food used for heated milk challenge is often prepared in a non-standardized manner by the parents at home, which may prove inconvenient and even sometimes raise concerns with regards to test validity. Instant skim milk powder is made by a food process that involves hea...

In his book ‘LeVol des Insectes’, whichwas published in 1934, the French entomologist Antoine Magnan mentioned in passing that when he and his assistant, the mathematician André Sainte-Laguë, applied the conventional laws of fixed-wing aerodynamics to flapping wings, they were unable to explain how insects could fly (Magnan, 1934). Thus was born the infamous ‘bumblebeeparadox’,much to the annoy...