Najwa Khuri-Bulos

TL;DR: Respiratory viruses are associated with severe illness in Jordanian children hospitalised with ARI and prevention strategies such as extended breast feeding, increased access to palivizumab and RSV vaccine development could help decrease hospitalisation rates and illness severity.

TL;DR: A systematic review of human parainfluenza virus (hPIV)-associated and hPIV-attributable ALRI incidence, hospital admissions, and mortality for children younger than 5 years and stratified by 0-5 months, 6-11 months, and 12-59 months of age as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Infants admitted to the Jordanian NICU have significantly higher median gestational age and birth weights than in developed countries and were associated with significant morbidity and mortality.

TL;DR: Clinical and demographic data of Kawasaki disease in Jordan from a single institution is reported, with emphasis on cardiac involvement and short to intermediate follow-up, and most coronary aneurysms were present at the time of diagnosis.

TL;DR: It is concluded that while enteric fevers lead to a mild illness in the older child, in infants and very young children the fevers were often characterized by a severe and protracted illness, the seriousness of which was complicated by delay in diagnosis.