Assessment of ADAMTS-13 Level in Hospitalized Children with Serious Bacterial Infections as a Possible Prognostic Marker

Background and objectives: In children, acute infection is the most common cause of visits in the primary care or emergency department.In 2002, criteria for diagnostics of pediatric sepsis were published, and then revised in 2016 as “life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection”.In the pathophysiol

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Theory-based immunisation health education intervention in improving child immunisation uptake among antenatal mothers attending federal medical centre in Nigeria: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

BackgroundChildhood immunisation coverage is very low in Nigeria (31%) with Zamfara State being amongst the states with the poorest coverage (MethodologyThe study will be a single-blind parallel-group randomised controlled trial, where baseline data will be collected from 392 estimated antenatal mothers, after that they will be evenly randomised us

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