Submissions from 2014
Risk factors for complicated varicella infection in pediatric oncology patients at a tertiary health care facility in Pakistan, Muhammad Matloob Alam, Farah Naz Qamar, Zalan Wahid Khan, Vikram Kumar, Naureen Mushtaq, and Zehra Fadoo
Neonatal sepsis following prolonged rupture of membranes in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Muhammad Matloob Alam, Ali Faisal Saleem, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Owais Munir, and Maqbool Qadir
Global practices of meningococcal vaccine use and impact on invasive disease, Syed Asad Ali, Rabab Batool, Nancy Messonnier, Carol Tevi-Benissan, David Durrheim, Juhani Eskola, Florence Fermon, Keith P. Klugman, Mary Ramsay, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Impact of different dosing schedules on the immunogenicity of the human rotavirus vaccine in infants in Pakistan: a randomized trial, Syed Asad Ali, Abdul Momin Kazi, Margaret M. Cortese, Jessica A. Fleming, Umesh D. Parashar, Baoming Jiang, Monica Malone McNeal, Duncan Steele, Zulfiqar Bhutta, and Anita Zaidi
Acute cerebellitis with hydrocephalus, Nida Amjad, Anwarul Haque, and Khalid Ahmed
Absorbed zinc and exchangeable zinc pool size are greater in Pakistani infants receiving traditional complementary foods with zinc-fortified micronutrient powder, Shabina Ariff, Nancy F. Krebs, Sajid Soofi, Jamie Westcott, Zaid Bhatti, Farhana Tabassum, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Community based interventions for the prevention and control of tuberculosis, Ahmed Arshad, Rehana A. Salam, Zohra S. Lassi, Jai K. Das, Imama Naqvi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Gender differences in self esteem in young adolescents of Karachi, Shelina Bhamani, Sabeen Jamil, and Falak Zehra Mohsin
Immunogenicity and safety of the Vi-CRM197 conjugate vaccine against typhoid fever in adults, children, and infants in south and southeast Asia: results from two randomised, observer-blind, age de-escalation, phase 2 trials, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Maria Rosario Capeding, Ashish Bavdekar, Elisa Marchetti, Shabina Ariff, Sajid B Soofi, Alessandra Anemona, Atif Habib, Edison Alberto, Sanjay Juvekar, Rana M Qasim Khan, Rachid Marhaba, Noshad Ali, Nelia Malubay, Anand Kawade, Allan Saul, Laura B Martin, and Audino Podda
Antibiotics to promote growth in children?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Infectious disease: Polio eradication hinges on child health in Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Assessment of environmental enteropathy in the MAL-ED cohort study: Theoretical and analytic framework, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Imran Ahmed, Didar Alam, Syed Asad Ali, Shahida Qureshi, Sadia Shakoor, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Ali Turab, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Should research fraud be a crime?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Julian Crane
A role for science investments in advancing newborn health, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Gary L. Darmstadt
Can available interventions end preventable deaths in mothers, newborn babies, and stillbirths, and at what cost?, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Jai K. Das, Rajiv Bahl, Joy E. Lawn, Rehana A. Salam, Vinod K. Paul, M Jeeva Sankar, Hannah Blencowe, Arjumand Rizvi, Victoria B. Chou, and Neff Walker
Interventions to Address Maternal and Childhood Undernutrition: Current Evidence, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Das J. K
Tackling the existing burden of infectious diseases in the developing world: existing gaps and the way forward, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rehana A. Salam, Jai K. Das, and Zohra S. Lassi
Approaches to improve Quality of Care (QoC) for women and newborns: conclusions, evidence gaps and research priorities, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rehana A. Salam, Zohra S. Lassi, Anne Austin, and Ana Langer
Global burden, distribution, and interventions for infectious diseases of poverty, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta; Johannes Sommerfeld; Zohra S. Lassi,; Rehana A. Salam; and Jai K Das
Congenital mydriasis and prune belly syndrome in a child with an ACTA2 mutation, Michael C. Brodsky, Kadriye Erkan Turan, Cheryl L. Khanna, Alice Patton, and Salman Kirmani
Erratum: Congenital mydriasis and prunebelly syndrome in a child with an ACTA2 mutation, Michael C. Brodsky, Kadriye Erkan Turan, Cheryl L. Khanna, Alice Patton, and Salman Kirmani
Early recovery in post Varicella transverse myelitis, Prem Chand, Shahnaz brahim, Syed Sohail Zaidi, and Nida Amjad
Community based interventions for the prevention and control of Non-Helmintic NTD, Jai K. Das, Rehana A. Salam, Ahmed Arshad, Hasina Maredia, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Global burden of childhood diarrhea and interventions, Jai K. Das, Rehana A. Salam, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Novel de novo SPOCK1 mutation in a proband with developmental delay, microcephaly and agenesis of corpus callosum, Radhika Dhamija, John M. Graham Jr, Nizar Smaoui, Erik Thorland, and Salman Kirmani
A 7-year-old girl with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and progressive scoliosis, Radhika Dhamija and Salman Kirmani
Novel de novo heterozygous FGFR1 mutation in two siblings with Hartsfield syndrome: A case of gonadal mosaicism, Radhika Dhamija, Salman Kirmani, Xiangling Wang, Matthew J. Ferber, Eric D. Wieben, Konstantinos N. Lazaridis, and Dusica Babovic-Vuksanovic
Bone strength and structural deficits in children and adolescents with a distal forearm fracture resulting from mild trauma, Joshua N. Farr, Shreyasee Amin, L. Joseph Melton III, Salman Kirmani, Louise K. McCready, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Ralph Müller, and Sundeep Khosla
Diminished bone strength is observed in adult women and men who sustained a mild trauma distal forearm fracture during childhood, Joshua N. Farr, Sundeep Khosla, Sara J. Achenbach, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Salman Kirmani, Louise K. McCready, L Joseph Melton III, and Shreyasee Amin
CT scan in children with acute bacterial meningitis: experience from emergency department of a tertiary-care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, Jabeen Fayyaz, Arshalooz Rehman, Akhter Hamid, Munawar Khursheed, Nukhba Zia, Asher Feroze, and Uzma R. Khan
Age related clinical manifestation of acute bacterial meningitis in children, Jabeen Fayyaz, Arshalooz Rehman, Akhter Hamid, Munawar Khursheed, Nukhbha Zia, and Asher Feroze
Effects of estrogen on bone mRNA levels of sclerostin and other genes relevant to bone metabolism in postmenopausal women, Koji Fujita, Matthew M. Roforth, Susan Demaray, Ulrike McGregor, Salman Kirmani, Louise K. McCready, James M. Peterson, Matthew T. Drake, David G. Monroe, and Sundeep Khosla
Feasibility of pediatric plasma apheresis in intensive care settings, Anwarul Haque, Gul Sher, Mehar Hoda, and Bushra Moiz
Short-term neonatal outcome in late preterm vs. term infants, Anila Haroon, Syed Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, and Humaira Maheen
Disruption of MBD5 contributes to a spectrum of psychopathology and neurodevelopmental abnormalities, J C. Hodge, E Mitchell, V Pillalamarri, T L. Toler, F Bartel, H M. Kearney, Y S. Zou, W H. Tan, C Hanscom, and Salman Kirmani
Evaluating associations between vaccine response and malnutrition, gut function, and enteric infections in the MAL-ED cohort study: Methods and challenges, Christel Hoest, Imran Ahmed, Didar Alam, Syed Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Shahida Qureshi, Sadia Shakoor, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Ali Turab, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
The upsurge of SSPE--a reflection of national measles immunization status in Pakistan, Shahnaz Ibrahim, Nida Amjad, Ali Faisal Saleem Dr, Prem Chand, Arshad Rafique, and Khadija Nuzhat Humayun
Culturable aerobic and facultative anaerobic intestinal bacterial flora of black cobra (Naja naja karachiensis) in southern Pakistan, Junaid Iqbal, Mehwish Sagheer, Nazneen Tabassum, Ruqaiyyah Siddiqui, and Naveed Ahmed Khan
Sentinel hospital-based surveillance for assessment of burden of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children in Pakistan, Abdul Momin Kazi, Gohar Javed Warraich, Shahida Qureshi, Huma Qureshi, Muhammad Mubashir Ahmad Khan, and Anita Kaniz Mehdi Zaidi
Monitoring polio supplementary immunization activities using an automated short text messaging system in Karachi, Pakistan, A M. Kazi, A Murtaza, S Khoja, A K. Zaidi, and S A. Ali
Readmission to paediatric intensive care unit: frequency, causes and outcome, Muhammad Rehan Khan, Prem Kumar, Sumaira Iram, and Anwarul Haque
Genetic Testing in Endocrinology, Salman Kirmani
Antibiotic therapy versus no antibiotic therapy for children aged two to 59 months with WHO-defined non-severe pneumonia and wheeze, Zohra S. Lassi, Rohail Kumar, Jai K. Das, Rehana A. Salam, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
The conceptual framework and assessment methodology for the systematic reviews of community-based interventions for the prevention and control of infectious diseases of poverty, Zohra S. Lassi, Rehana A. Salam, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Clinical manifestations and treatment outcomes in HIV-1-infected children receiving antiretroviral therapy in Karachi, Pakistan, Fatima Mir, Farah Naz Qamar, Naila Baig-Ansari, Azra Ghayas Abro, Syed Qamar Abbas, Mohammed Ahmed Kazi, Arjumand Rizvi, and Anita Kaniz Mehdi Zaidi
Clinical Characteristics and Immediate-Outcome of Children Mechanically Ventilated in PICU of Pakistan, Beenish Mukhtar, Naveedur R. Siddiqui, and Anwarul Haque
Fragile X syndrome due to a missense mutation, Leila K. Myrick, Mika Nakamoto-Kinoshita, Noralane M. Lindor, Salman Kirmani, Xiaodong Cheng, and Stephen T. Warren
Theory-driven process evaluation of a complementary feeding trial in four countries, Jamie E. Newman, Ana Garces, Manolo Mazariegos, K Michael Hambidge, Albert Manasyan, Antoinette Tshefu, Adrien Lokangaka, Neelofar Sami, Waldemar A. Carlo, and Carl L. Bose
Immune responses to Vi capsular polysaccharide typhoid vaccine in children 2 to 16 years old in Karachi, Pakistan, and Kolkata, India, R. Leon Ochiai, M. Imran Khan, Sajid B. Soofi, Dipika Sur, Suman Kanungo, Young Ae You, Atif Habib, Shah Muhammad Sahito, Byomkesh Manna, Camilo J. Acosta, Mohammad Ali, Sujit K. Bhattacharya, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, and John D. Clemens
A three-year review of antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica serovars Typhi and Paratyphi A in Pakistan, Farah Naz Qamar, Asma Azmatullah, Abdul Momin Kazi, Erum Khan, and Anita Kaniz Mehdi Zaidi
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis: clinical and demographic characteristics, Arshad Rafique, Nida Amjad, Prem Chand, Syed Sohail Zahoor Zaidi, Muhammad Suleman Rana, Khalid Ahmed, and Shahnaz Ibrahim
The MAL-ED cohort study: Methods and lessons learned when assessing early child development and caregiving mediators in infants and young children in 8 low- and middle-income countries, Muneera Rasheed, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, (MAL-ED) Network Investigators, Imran Ahmed, Didar Alam, Syed Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Shahida Qureshi, Sadia Shakoor, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Ali Turab, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Posterior mediastinal branchial cleft cyst: an unusual site, Abdul Rashid, Vaqas Ahmad, Saqib Qazi, Abdul Gaffar Billoo, Sajida Rashid, and Ali Faisal Saleem
Modeling environmental influences on child growth in the MAL-ED cohort study: Opportunities and challenges, Stephanie A. Richard, Imran Ahmed, Didar Alam, Syed Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Shahida Qureshi, Sadia Shakoor, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Ali Turab, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Effects of age on bone mRNA levels of sclerostin and other genes relevant to bone metabolism in humans, Matthew M. Roforth, Koji Fujita, Ulrike I. McGregor, Salman Kirmani, Louise K. McCready, James M. Peterson, Matthew T. Drake, David G. Monroe, and Sundeep Khosla
Impact of intrauterine growth restriction on long-term health, Rehana A. Salam, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Multiple micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy and lactation in low-to-middle-income developing country settings: impact on pregnancy outcomes, Rehana A. Salam, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Impact of community-based interventions for the prevention and control of malaria on intervention coverage and health outcomes for the prevention and control of malaria, Rehana A. Salam, Jai K. Das, Zohra S. Lassi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Impact of community-based interventions on HIV knowledge, attitudes and transmission, Rehana A. Salam, Sarah Haroon, Hashim H. Ahmed, Jai K. Das, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Community-based interventions for the prevention and control of helmintic neglected tropical diseases, Rehana A. Salam, Hasina Maredia, Jai K. Das, Zohra S. Lassi, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Empyema thoracis in children: clinical presentation, management and complications, Ali Faisal Saleem, Abdul Sattar Shaikh, Reema Sajjad Khan, Fazal Khan, Ahmad Vaqas Faruque, and Muhammad Arif Mateen Khan
Mutations in the neuronal vesicular SNARE VAMP2 affect synaptic membrane fusion and impair human neurodevelopment, Vincenzo Salpietro, Nancy T. Malintan, Isabel Llano-Rivas, Christine G. Spaeth, Stephanie Efthymiou, Pasquale Striano, Jana Vandrovcova, Salman Kirmani, Shahnaz Ibrahim, and Farida Jan
Effect of L-type calcium channel blocker (amlodipine) on myocardial iron deposition in patients with thalassaemia with moderate-to-severe myocardial iron deposition: protocol for a randomised, controlled trial, Amarah Shakoor, Maaman Zahoor, Alina Sadaf, Najveen Alvi, Zehra Fadoo, Arjumand Rizvi, Farheen Quadri, Fateh Ali Tipoo, Mohammad Khurshid, Zaffar Sajjad, Steven Colan, and Babar S Hasan
Pneumococcal serotypes and serogroups causing invasive disease in Pakistan, 2005-2013, Sadia Shakoor, Furqan Kabir, Asif R. Khowaja, Shahida M. Qureshi, Fyezah Jehan, Farah Qamar, Cynthia G. Whitney, and Anita K M Zaidi
Multi-drug resistant gram negative infections and use of intravenous polymyxin B in critically ill children of developing country: Retrospective cohort study, Naveed-ur-Rehman Siddiqui, Farah Naz Qamar, Humaira Jurair, and Anwarul Haque
Risk factors associated with birth asphyxia in rural district Matiari, Pakistan: A case control study, Farhana Tabassum, Arjumand Rizvi, Shabina Ariff, Sajid Bashir Soofi, and Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta
Infant feeding practices, dietary adequacy, and micronutrient status measures in the MAL-ED study, Ali Turab, (MAL-ED) Network Investigators, Imran Ahmed, Didar Alam, Syed Asad Ali, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Shahida Qureshi, Sadia Shakoor, Sajid Bashir Soofi, Ali Turab, Aisha Khizar Yousafzai, and Anita K. M. Zaidi
Moving beyond prevalence studies: screening and interventions for children with disabilities in low-income and middle-income countries, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Paul Lynch, and Melissa Gladstone
Capacity building in the health sector to improve care for child nutrition and development, Aisha K. Yousafzai, Muneera A. Rasheed, Bernadette Daelmans, Sheila Manji, Caroline Arnold, Raghu Lingam, Joshua Muskin, and Jane E. Lucas
Recurrent Salmonellosis in a Child with Complete IL-12Rbeta1 Deficiency, Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Syed Asad Ali, Fyezah Jehan, Abdul Gaffar Billo, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Jacinta Bustamante, Stephanie Boisson-Dupuis, and Fatima Mir
Frequency of cardiorenal syndrome type-I in hospitalized children with acute heart failure in a tertiary-care hospital, Mehjabeen Zaidi, Arshalooz Jamila Rehman, Anwarul Haque, Saleem Akhtar, and Prem Kumar Maheshwar
Submissions from 2013
Adult-onset manifestation of idiopathic T-cell lymphopenia due to a heterozygous RAG1 mutation, Roshini S. Abraham, Mike Recher, Silvia Giliani, Jolan E. Walter, Yu Nee Lee, Francesco Frugoni, Daniel E. Maddox, Salman Kirmani, and Luigi D. Notarangelo
Transient pseudo-hypertriglyceridemia: a useful biochemical marker of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, Bushra Afroze, Zabedah Yunus, Beat Steinmann, and Rene Santer
Oesophageal duplication cyst presenting as haemoptysis, Noureen Afzal, Syeda Ezz-e-Rukhshan Adil, Ammara Mushtaq, Arshalooz Rahman, and Muneer Amanullah
Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in cryptogenic liver cirrhosis, Noureen Afzal, Saleem Akhtar, Shakeel Ahmed, and Mehnaz Atiq
Treatment of Burn Wound Infection Using Ultraviolet Light: A Case Report, Numra Abdul Aleem, Moaz Aslam, Mohammad Faizan Zahid, Arshalooz Jamila Rahman, and Fazl Ur Rehman
Role of human metapneumovirus, influenza a virus and respiratory syncytial virus in causing WHO-defined severe pneumonia in children in a developing country, Asad Ali, Asif Raza Khowaja, Maaman Zahoor Bashir, Fatima Aziz, Sultan Mustafa, and Anita Zaidi
Salmonella Cholecystitis: Atypical Presentation of a Typical Condition, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, Huba Atiq, and Muhammad Hamid
Pneumothoraces in a neonatal tertiary care unit: case series, Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, Maqbool Qadir, Prem Maheshwari, and Rehan Khan
Pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09: An unrecognized cause of mortality in children in Pakistan, Syed Asad Ali, Fatima Aziz, Nida Akhtar, Shahida Qureshi, Kathryn Edwards, and Anita Zaidi
Disease patterns and outcomes of neonatal admissions at a secondary care hospital in pakistan, Syed R. Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, and Heeramani Lohana
Trends of empiric antibiotic usage in a secondary care hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, Syed Rehan Ali, Shakeel Ahmed, and Heeramani Lohana
A distal forearm fracture in childhood is associated with an increased risk for future fragility fractures in adult men, but not women, Shreyasee Amin, L Joseph Melton 3rd, Sara J. Achenbach, Elizabeth J. Atkinson, Mark B. Dekutoski, Salman Kirmani, Philip R. Fischer, and Sundeep Khosla
"Ocular moyamoya" syndrome in a patient with features of microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II, Genie M. Bang, Salman Kirmani, Alice Patton, Jose S. Pulido, and Michael C. Brodsky
Standardisation of neonatal clinical practice, Z A. Bhutta, F Giuliani, A Haroon, H E. Knight, E Albernaz, M Batra, B Bhat, E Bertino, K McCormick, and R Ochieng
Early nutrition and adult outcomes: pieces of the puzzle, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Global maternal, newborn, and child health--so near and yet so far, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Robert E. Black
Evidence-based interventions for improvement of maternal and child nutrition: what can be done and at what cost?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Jai K. Das, Arjumand Rizvi, Michelle F. Gaffey, Neff Walker, Susan Horton, Patrick Webb, Anna Lartey, and Robert E. Black
Global burden of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia: what can and should be done?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Jai Kumar Das
Interventions to address deaths from childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea equitably: what works and at what cost?, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Jai K. Das, Neff Walker, Arjumand Rizvi, Harry Campbell, Igor Rudan, and Robert E. Black
Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Pakistan: challenges and opportunities, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Assad Hafeez, Arjumand Rizvi, Nabeela Ali, Amanullah Khan, Faatehuddin Ahmad, Shereen Bhutta, Tabish Hazir, Anita Zaidi, and Sadequa N. Jafarey
Global Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta and Robert E. Black
Scientific declaration on polio eradication, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta and Walter A. Orenstein
Meeting the challenges of micronutrient malnutrition in the developing world, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Rehana A. Salam, and Jai K. Das
Setting priorities for development of emerging interventions against childhood diarrhoea, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Alvin Zipursky, Kerri Wazny, Myron M. Levine, Robert E. Black, Diego G. Bassani, Mathuram Shantosham, Stephen B. Freedman, Adenike Grange, and Margaret Kosek
Surgical outcomes of pediatric patients with ventricular septal defects in a tertiary referral center in Pakistan: a retrospective cohort study, Omair Bushra, Muneer Amanullah, and Atiq Mehnaz
Systematic review of zinc fortification trials, Jai K. Das, Rohail Kumar, Rehana A. Salam, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Micronutrient fortification of food and its impact on woman and child health: A systematic review, Jai K. Das, Rehana A. Salam, Rohail Kumar, and Zulfiqar A. Bhutta
Setting research priorities for preconception care in low- and middle-income countries: Aiming to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity, Sohni Dean, Igor Rudan, Fernando Althabe, Aimee Webb Girard, Christopher Howson, Ana Langer, Joy Lawn, Mary-Elizabeth Reeve, Katherine C. Teela, and Mireille Toledano