Important Topics in Pediatric Infections

Paediatric Viral Infections With Rash

• Measles
• Etiological Evidence
• Mode of Infection
• Secondary Attack Rate
• Period of Infectivity
• Pathology of Infection
• Clinical Features
• Complications in Measles
• Diagnosis and Treatment
• Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis
• Stages of SSPE
• Diagnosis of SSPE
• Rubella/German Measles
• Etiological Agent
• Mode of Infection
• Incubation Period
• Period of Infectivity
• Complications of Rubella
• Management and 
• Prevention
• Pregnant Females Exposed to Rubella
• Varicella Zoster Virus (VZV) Infection
• Problem of Latent Infection in VZV
• Clinical Features
• Complications
• Treatment
• Fifth Disease: Erythema infectiosum.
• Sixth Disease: Exanthem Subitum or Roseola Infantum

Mumps

• Epidemiology and Mode of Spread
• Pathology and Pathogenesis
• Clinical Features
• Features of typical infection
• Investigations
• Complications of Mumps
• Treatment of Mumps
• Period of isolation in Mumps

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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections: Staphylococcus

• Staphylococcal infection in children
• Etiological agent
• Predisposing Factors
• Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus Aureus
• Spectrum of infections
• Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
• Deep or Systemic Infections
• Staphylococcal Food Poisoning
• Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome – SSSS
• Toxic Shock Syndrome
• Diagnostic Criteria for TSS -Nelson 21st Edition
• Treatment of Staphylococcus Infections

Other Gram Positive Bacterial Infections In Children

• Streptococcal Infections in Children
• Lancefield classification
• Pneumococcal infections in Childhood
• Predisposing Factors
• The Spectrum of Childhood Infections
• Investigations
• Treatment of Pneumococcal infections
• Group A Streptococcal Infections in Children
• Spectrum of childhood infections
• Impetigo/Pyoderma
• Erysipelas
• Severe Invasive Disease
• Investigations
• Treatment of Pneumococcal Infections
• Complications
• Pandas
• Diphtheria
• Pathogenesis
• Clinical features
• Rare form-Cutaneous Diphtheria
• Complications
• Investigations
• Treatment
• Prophylaxis
• Enterococcal infections in childhood
• Antibiotic Resistance in Enterococci
• Vancomycin Resistance in Enterococci
• Risk factors
• Spectrum of Childhood Infections
• Treatment
• Drugs Effective Against VRE
• Listeria Monocytogenes
• Modes of Infection
• Risk factors for Leptospira infection
• Spectrum of infections
• Diagnosis
• Treatment

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Gram Negative Bacterial Infections In Children

• Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
• Causative Agent
• Mode of Infection
• Secondary Attack Rate
• Chronic Carriage and Lifelong Protection
• Antigens and Toxins Implicated
• Clinical Features
• Complications
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Period of Isolation
• Chemoprophylaxis
• Brucellosis
• Types of Brucella
• Pathogenesis
• Clinical Features
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Leptospirosis
• Pathogenesis
• Clinical Features
• Weil's Syndrome
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Legionella
• Risk Factors
• Meningococcal infections in Children
• Risk Factors
• Pathogenesis 
• Other Gram negative bacterial infections in Children
• Bartonella
• Important Bartonella infections
• Clinical Features
• Ocular CSD - Parinaud Oculoglandular Syndrome
• Severe Disseminated Disease
• Complications
• Diagnosis and Treatment
• Bartonellosis
• Trench Fever
• Vascular proliferative diseases

Anaerobic Bacterial Infections In Children

• Botulism
• Mechanism of Botulism
• Types of Botulism
• Clinical Features of Infant Botulism
• Other Types of Botulism
• Cause of Death in Botulism
• Antibiotics in botulism
• Tetanus
• Pathogenesis of Tetanus
• Clinical Types of Tetanus
• Neonatal Tetanus
• Localized Tetanus
• Diagnosis of Tetanus
• Treatment of Tetanus
• Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI)
• Miscellaneous Anaerobic Infections

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Rickettsial Infections

• Rickettsiae
• Spectrum of Rickettsial Diseases
• Scrub Typhus
• Tsutsugamushi Triangle
• Clinical Features of Scrub Typhus
• Complications
• Diagnosis
• Treatment
• Prevention

Pediatric Tb

• Latest terminology
• Line Probe Assay (LPA)
• NAAT V/S LPA
• Diagnostic algorithm for Pediatric TB: IAP- NTEP 2020 Guidelines
• Diagnostic algorithm for evaluation of suspected pediatric DRTB
• Management of Pediatric TB
• Management of resistant TB IAP-NTEP 2020 Guidelines

Pediatric Hiv

• Viral Characteristics
• HIV Genome
• Viral Entry Receptors
• How does the HIV Virus infect cells?
• How do HIV-2 differ from HIV-1?
• Transmission
• HIV in infants
• Risk factors for Perinatal HIV transmission
• HIV transmission risk via PTCT
• Mixed Feeding: The controversy?
• ARV Prophylaxis in HIV-Exposed Infants
• How to decide the regimen?
• Dosage to administer in ARV
• Diagnosis of HIV in infants

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Viral Hepatitis In Children

• Causes of Childhood Hepatitis
• Common Clinical Characteristics
• Pathogenesis of Viral Hepatitis in Children
• Biochemical Profile of Acute Viral Hepatitis
• Importance of Urine and Stool Investigations
• Hepatitis A virus (HAV)
• Hepatitis E Virus (HEV)
• Hepatitis B Virus
• Hepatitis D Virus
• Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)

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