ARI's and Tuberculosis : Indian Pediatrics January 2010; Volume 47: Number 1

ARI's and Tuberculosis : Indian Pediatrics January 2010; Volume 47: Number 1

White Paper

Rational Use of Antibiotics for Pneumonia – India Clinical Epidemiology Network (IndiaCLEN) Task Force on Pneumonia 11
[PDF Format]

Perspective

Acute Respiratory Infection: Boston University’s Collaborative Research Work in the Last Decade – Abanish Rizal, Jennifer Beard and Ashok Patwari   19
[PDF Format]

2009 Pandemic Influenza in India – T Jacob John and Mahesh Moorthy 25
[PDF Format]

Editorials

Vaccines as Tools to Reduce ARI Burden:Merits and Some Inherent Verticality in the Debate–Sanjay Chaturvedi    33
[PDF Format]

Evidence-based Treatment of Tuberculosis for Children: The Unfinished Agenda – Soumya Swaminathan   39
[PDF Format]

Recommendations

Consensus Statement on Childhood Tuberculosis – Working Group on Tuberculosis, Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP)             41
[PDF Format]

Special Article

Pertinent Issues in Diagnosis and Management of Wheezing in Under-five Children at Community Level –Dheeraj Shah and Piyush Gupta  56
[PDF Format]

Eureca

Zinc Supplementation for Prevention or Treatment of Childhood Pneumonia: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials – Joseph L Mathew    61
[PDF Format]

Research Papers

Intermittent or Daily Short Course Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis in Children: Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials – P Ramesh Menon, R Lodha, S Sivanandan and SK Kabra     67
[PDF Format]

Efficacy of Short Course (<4 Days) of Antibiotics for Treatment of Acute Otitis Media in Children: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled TrialsAnjana Gulani, HPS Sachdev and Shamim A Qazi    74
[PDF Format]

Focus

Current Status of Tuberculosis and Acute Respiratory Infections in India: Much More Needs to be Done! – Vipin M Vashishtha       88
[PDF Format]

Short Communications

T-Cell Assay as a Diagnostic Tool for Tuberculosis – A Warier, S Gunawathi, Venkatesh, KR John and A Bose   90
[PDF Format]

Intermittent Short Course Therapy for Pediatric Tuberculosis – CK Indumathi, K Kumar Prasanna, Chitra Dinakar, Anita Shet and S Lewin   93
[PDF Format]

Prevalence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Children in Western Uttar Pradesh – Vipin M Vashishtha and T Jacob John    97
[PDF Format]

Correspondence

Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Novel H1N1 (swine) Flu Among Pediatricians of Chandigarh –Vidushi Mahajan and Shiv Sajan Saini    101
[PDF Format]

H1N1 Guidelines – VP Fadnis    101
[PDF Format]

Reply – Nitin Shah   102
[PDF Format]

News in Brief 105

[PDF Format]

Clippings 106

[PDF Format]

Events

[PDF Format]