A 5-month-old boy presented to us with fever and cough for 15 days and one episode of generalized tonic clonic convulsion. He had oral thrush at 1 month and otitis media at 2 months of age. Birth weight was 2.9 kg. His elder brother died at 11 months of age due to some respiratory illness. On presentation, he was lethargic, and had tachycardia and tachypnea. He had oral thrush, diffuse greyish ...

CONTEXT The natural course of HIV disease progression among resource-poor patient populations has not been clearly defined. OBJECTIVE To describe predictors of HIV disease progression as seen at an outpatient clinic in a resource-limited setting in rural Ethiopia. DESIGN This prospective cohort study included all adult HIV patients who visited an outpatient clinic at Arba Minch hospital in ...

BACKGROUND As HIV-infected infants have high mortality, the World Health Organization now recommends initiating antiretroviral therapy as early as possible in the first year of life. However, in many settings, laboratory diagnosis of HIV in infants is not readily available. We aimed to develop a clinical algorithm for HIV presumptive diagnosis in infants < 10 weeks old using screening data from...

I m A a l a e d a i c owadays, patients with AIDS can live a life with considerble quality in relation to oral health, being healthy enough o tolerate most surgical and dental procedures. Furtherore, several studies have shown that patients with HIV isease are not more susceptible to complications, regardess of CD4-cell counts. There are no oral lesions that are specific to HIV patients. ll les...

We carried out a seed germination experiment using two thrush species in captivity. We compared the number of germinated seeds and germination time of control seeds (manually removed from fruits) and ingested seeds of Miconia prasina by two bird species, Turdus albicollis and T. amaurochalinus, and also compared retention times of seeds by both thrush species. Control seeds germinated more freq...

The true thrushes (Turdinae; Sibley and Monroe, 1990) are a speciose lineage of songbirds, with a near-cosmopolitan distribution. Following the systematic placement of true thrushes as a close relative of Old World flycatchers and chats (Muscicapinae) by the DNA–DNA hybridization work of Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), a number of molecular systematic studies have focused on various aspects of true...