PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

EDITORIAL

Typhoid fever: Serodiagnosis and prevention                                               85

ORIGINAL ARTICLES              

Nitroblue tetrazoliun (NBT) test in early diagnosis of typhoid fever in children                                 89
S.C. Praharaj, U. Rath, A.K. Kar and K.C. Praharaj

Aminoglycosides and renal function in infants                                             95
Kumud P. Mehta

Infant mortality in Rajasthan villages                                                     101
S.D. Gupta, T.P. Jain, S. Joshi and D.K. Mangal

Inpact of family size on the morbidity pattern of pre-school children                                     107
Asif Z. Khan, P. Ahmad, B. Hasan and S.N. Sinha

Outcome of measles in Afghanistan                                                       112
L.S. Arya, Shafiqa Azamy, A.R. Ghani and Meharban Singh

Cerebrospinal fluid and blood glucose levels in febrile convulsions                          117
S.K. Yachha, Ashok Patwari, S. Bhan, A. Hussain and Daljit Singh

Serum zinc in pulmonary infections                                                            120
D.K. Khatri, B.P. Gupta, N. Miglani and A Jain

Cellular immunity in low birth weight infants: A Preliminary study                               120
P.K. Misra, R.S. Sethi, K.C. Saxena, M.K. Tolani and K. Das

BRIEF REPORTS

Adrenoleukodystrophy                                                127
Meena Desai, J.V. Khatri and A.N. Pandit

Tuberculous rheumatism in children                                    131
R. Satpathy, D.B. Das and B.K. Bhuyan

Orchioblastoma – Infantile adenocarcinoma of testis                                             133
M.C.R. Vyas, D.R. Mathur, K.R. Joshi and B.D. Gupta

Deceptive foreign bodies in the tracheobronchial tree                                     138
Nalini Saxena, N.C. Bhattacharyya, Lata Kumar and S.K. Mitra

An unusual complication following BCG vaccination                                    140
M. Nagaraj Rao, T.V.M. Murthy and Y.R. Reddy

Methemoglobinemia following dapsone ingestion                                        142
Vedavati Subramanyam and B. Subbiah

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Giant nasal gliomas                                                  144
G. Gopal

BOOK REVIEW                                      145

ANNOUNCEMENT

Dr. V. Balagopal Raju Award                          146

NOTES AND NEWS                   

National Neonatology Forum                                            105

Sixth Annual Conference of Gujarat Pediatricians                            122