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Ira Shah

A 4-month-old boy presented with fever, cough, cold since 5 days and breathlessness since 1 day with decreased appetite. Chest X-Ray = Bilateral lower zone pneumonia with minimal pleural effusion and inter fissural effusion on right side.

Which organism causes pneumonia?

Read the entire teaching clinical query in the section of “TEACHING FILES” and try the correct answer.

Last month's teaching file: A 2 month old boy presented with jaundice without high coloured urine. He was on exclusive breast feeds and had no Rh or ABO incompatibility. Jaundice did not subside on stopping breast milk but decreased with phenobarbitone. What is the diagnosis?


Answer: Criggler Najjer Type 2.

Ritesh Radhakrishnan Palliana, D K Singh, Ashwin Borade
Zinc deficiency as a risk factor for febrile seizure.

Moumita Samanta, Chanchal Kundu, Mihir Sarkar, Sukanta Chatterjee
A rare syndrome with agenesis of corpus callosum.

Surasak Puvabanditsin, Eugene Garrow, dalal Taha, Erik Brandsma
Ectopic testis - a rare encounter of empty scrotum.

Bharat Chaudhari, Rajesh Kulkarni, Aarti Kinikar
Long umbilical cord with multiple loops round the fetal neck.

Vikrant Sood, Mukul Aggarwal

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