RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS, LABORATORY FINDINGS, ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS, AND INTRAVENOUS IMMUNOGLOBULIN RESISTANCE IN KAWASAKI DISEASE

Abstract Background This study investigates the incidence of ocular involvement in Kawasaki disease (KD) and evaluates the relationship between ocular manifestations, laboratory findings, echocardiographic findings, and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) resistance.Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study with 58 KD patients from June 2021 to Ma

In 2008 a nosocomial outbreak of five cases of viral hemorrhagic fever due to a novel arenavirus, Lujo virus, occurred in Johannesburg, South Africa.Lujo virus is only the second pathogenic arenavirus, after Lassa virus, to be recognized in Africa and the first in over 40 years.Because of the remote, resource-poor, and often politically unstable re