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Question of the Week

Q. How to confirm a case of malaria or dengue with a widal O titre positive, whether the widal is true positive or false positive due to polyclonal B lymphocyte stimulation?

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Teaching Files/ Grand Rounds

An 11-year-old girl with a past medical history of stomatitis three months earlier, presented to the emergency department with five days of mouth pain, partial food refusal, genital burning and eye itching. She also had a productive cough for the pas ...

What is the significance of detecting human metapneumovirus in this patient and ...

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Diagnostic Dilemma

A 2½ months old girl, first born of non consanguineous marriage presented with multifocal convulsions since 20 days. There was no fever, altered sensorium, focal neurological deficits or epilepsy in family. She was treated with valproate but seizures persisted. She was born at 8½ months of gestation ...

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