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Pathogenesis and prevention of aminoglycoside nephrotoxicity and ototoxicity
Detection of bacteremia: Blood cultures and other diagnostic tests
Fever without a source in children 3 to 36 months of age: Evaluation and management
Infection due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: Epidemiology, microbiology, and pathogenesis
Infection due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: Treatment
Intravascular non-hemodialysis catheter-related infection: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Intravascular non-hemodialysis catheter-related infection: Treatment
Invasive group A streptococcal infections in children
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Epidemiology and clinical features
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Management and outcome
Vibrio vulnificus infections
Acute and chronic bone complications of sickle cell disease
Bacterial arthritis: Clinical features and diagnosis in infants and children
Bacterial arthritis: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and microbiology in infants and children
Bacterial arthritis: Treatment and outcome in infants and children
Hematogenous osteomyelitis in children: Clinical features and complications
Hematogenous osteomyelitis in children: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and microbiology
Hematogenous osteomyelitis in children: Evaluation and diagnosis
Hematogenous osteomyelitis in children: Management
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of myocarditis in children
Treatment and prognosis of myocarditis in children
Acute viral encephalitis in children: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Acute viral encephalitis in children: Pathogenesis, epidemiology, and etiology
Acute viral encephalitis in children: Treatment and prevention
Bacterial meningitis in children older than one month: Clinical features and diagnosis
Bacterial meningitis in children older than one month: Treatment and prognosis
Bacterial meningitis in children: Dexamethasone and other measures to prevent neurologic complications
Bacterial meningitis in children: Neurologic complications
Bacterial meningitis in the neonate: Clinical features and diagnosis
Bacterial meningitis in the neonate: Neurologic complications
Bacterial meningitis in the neonate: Treatment and outcome
Central nervous system tuberculosis: An overview
Central nervous system tuberculosis: Treatment and prognosis
Clinical manifestations of meningococcal infection
Diagnosis of meningococcal infection
Epidemiology of Neisseria meningitidis infection
Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of Haemophilus influenzae
Infections of cerebrospinal fluid shunts and other devices
Microbiology and pathobiology of Neisseria meningitidis
Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of bacterial meningitis
Treatment and prevention of meningococcal infection
Tuberculous meningitis: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Viral meningitis in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Viral meningitis in children: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and etiology
Viral meningitis in children: Management, prognosis, and prevention
Approach to the child with recurrent infections
Fever and rash in the immunocompetent patient
Peripheral lymphadenopathy in children: Etiology
Peripheral lymphadenopathy in children: Evaluation and diagnostic approach
Vesicular, pustular, and bullous lesions in the newborn and infant
Autoinflammatory diseases mediated by NFkB and/or aberrant TNF activity
Autoinflammatory diseases mediated by inflammasomes and related IL-1 family cytokines (inflammasomopathies)
Autoinflammatory diseases mediated by interferon production and signaling (interferonopathies)
Autoinflammatory diseases mediated by miscellaneous mechanisms
Deficiency of adenosine deaminase 2 (DADA2)
Evaluation of children with non-chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and fever
Fever in children with chemotherapy-induced neutropenia
Fever in infants and children: Pathophysiology and management
Fever of unknown origin in children: Etiology
Fever of unknown origin in children: Evaluation
Fever without a source in children 3 to 36 months of age: Evaluation and management
Management of children with non-chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and fever
Periodic fever with aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and adenitis (PFAPA syndrome)
The autoinflammatory diseases: An overview
The febrile infant (29 to 90 days of age): Outpatient evaluation
The febrile infant (younger than 90 days of age): Definition of fever
Tumor necrosis factor receptor-1 associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
Candida infections in children
Candidemia and invasive candidiasis in children: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Candidemia and invasive candidiasis in children: Management
Clinical features and diagnosis of sporotrichosis
Treatment of sporotrichosis
Acute viral gastroenteritis in children in resource-rich countries: Clinical features and diagnosis
Acute viral gastroenteritis in children in resource-rich countries: Management and prevention
Cholera: Clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Cholera: Microbiology and pathogenesis
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Yersinia infections
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of rotavirus infection
Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of Campylobacter infection
Clostridioides difficile infection in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Clostridioides difficile infection in children: Microbiology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology
Clostridioides difficile infection in children: Treatment and outcome
Enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever: Treatment and prevention
Giardiasis: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Giardiasis: Treatment and prevention
Infections due to non-O1/O139 Vibrio cholerae
Nontyphoidal Salmonella: Gastrointestinal infection and carriage
Nontyphoidal Salmonella: Microbiology and epidemiology
Norovirus
Pathogenesis of Salmonella gastroenteritis
Pathogenesis of enteric (typhoid and paratyphoid) fever
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli: Microbiology, pathogenesis, epidemiology, and prevention
Shigella infection: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Shigella infection: Epidemiology, microbiology, and pathogenesis
Shigella infection: Treatment and prevention in children
Travelers' diarrhea: Epidemiology, microbiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Travelers' diarrhea: Treatment and prevention
Treatment and prevention of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection
Treatment and prognosis of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) in children
Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections
Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in children: Microbiology and management
Acute mastoiditis in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Acute mastoiditis in children: Treatment and prevention
Acute otitis media in children: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Acute otitis media in children: Epidemiology, microbiology, and complications
Acute otitis media in children: Prevention of recurrence
Acute otitis media in children: Treatment
Cervical lymphadenitis in children: Diagnostic approach and initial management
Cervical lymphadenitis in children: Etiology and clinical manifestations
Cochlear implant infections
Microbiology and antibiotic management of chronic rhinosinusitis
Moraxella catarrhalis infections
Orbital cellulitis
Otitis media with effusion (serous otitis media) in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Otitis media with effusion (serous otitis media) in children: Management
Patient education: Ear infections (otitis media) in children (Beyond the Basics)
Peritonsillar cellulitis and abscess
Preseptal cellulitis
Retropharyngeal infections in children
Diagnostic testing for HIV infection in infants and children younger than 18 months
Epidemiology of pediatric HIV infection
Pediatric HIV infection: Classification, clinical manifestations, and outcome
Prevention of vertical HIV transmission in resource-limited settings
The adolescent with HIV infection
Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization in children 6 weeks through 6 years of age
Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis immunization in children 7 through 18 years of age
Hepatitis A virus infection: Treatment and prevention
Hepatitis B virus immunization in adults
Hepatitis B virus immunization in infants, children, and adolescents
Human papillomavirus vaccination
Impact of universal infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in the United States
Measles, mumps, and rubella immunization in infants, children, and adolescents
Meningococcal vaccination in children and adults
Pneumococcal vaccination in children
Poliovirus vaccination
Prevention of Haemophilus influenzae type b infection
Rotavirus vaccines for infants
Seasonal influenza in children: Prevention with vaccines
Standard childhood vaccines: Parental hesitancy or refusal
Standard immunizations for children and adolescents: Overview
Treatment of varicella (chickenpox) infection
Vaccination for the prevention of chickenpox (primary varicella infection)
Vaccines to prevent smallpox, mpox (monkeypox), and other orthopoxviruses
Evaluation of children with non-chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and fever
Fever in children with chemotherapy-induced neutropenia
Management of children with non-chemotherapy-induced neutropenia and fever
Prevention of infection in patients with impaired splenic function
COVID-19: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) clinical features, evaluation, and diagnosis
COVID-19: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) management and outcome
Incomplete (atypical) Kawasaki disease
Kawasaki disease: Clinical features and diagnosis
Kawasaki disease: Complications
Kawasaki disease: Epidemiology and etiology
Kawasaki disease: Initial treatment and prognosis
Refractory Kawasaki disease
Diagnosis of Lyme disease
Evaluation of a tick bite for possible Lyme disease
Lyme carditis
Lyme disease: Clinical manifestations in children
Musculoskeletal manifestations of Lyme disease
Patient education: Lyme disease symptoms and diagnosis (Beyond the Basics)
Patient education: What to do after a tick bite to prevent Lyme disease (Beyond the Basics)
Prevention of Lyme disease
Southern tick-associated rash illness (STARI)
Treatment of Lyme disease
Botulism
Brucellosis: Epidemiology, microbiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Brucellosis: Treatment and prevention
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Listeria monocytogenes infection
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of anthrax
Congenital syphilis: Clinical manifestations, evaluation, and diagnosis
Congenital syphilis: Management and outcome
Epidemiology and pathogenesis of Listeria monocytogenes infection
Leptospirosis: Epidemiology, microbiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Leptospirosis: Treatment and prevention
Microbiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of cat scratch disease
Microbiology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of Campylobacter infection
Microbiology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of anthrax
Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children
Pasteurella infections
Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Pertussis infection in infants and children: Treatment and prevention
Pertussis infection: Epidemiology, microbiology, and pathogenesis
Prevention of anthrax
Rat bite fever
Treatment and prevention of Listeria monocytogenes infection
Treatment of cat scratch disease
Tularemia: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Tularemia: Microbiology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis
Zoonoses: Animals other than dogs and cats
Zoonoses: Cats
Zoonoses: Dogs
Disseminated nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infections and NTM bacteremia in children
Nontuberculous mycobacterial lymphadenitis in children
Nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections in children
Nontuberculous mycobacterial skin and soft tissue infections in children
Congenital toxoplasmosis: Clinical features and diagnosis
Congenital toxoplasmosis: Treatment, outcome, and prevention
Treatment of severe malaria
Treatment of uncomplicated falciparum malaria in nonpregnant adults and children
Chlamydia trachomatis infections in the newborn
Clinical features and diagnosis of bacterial sepsis in preterm infants <34 weeks gestation
Clinical features, evaluation, and diagnosis of sepsis in term and late preterm neonates
Congenital cytomegalovirus infection: Clinical features and diagnosis
Congenital cytomegalovirus infection: Management and outcome
Congenital rubella
Gonococcal infection in the newborn
Group B streptococcal infection in neonates and young infants
Management of neonates at risk for early-onset group B streptococcal infection
Neonatal herpes simplex virus infection: Clinical features and diagnosis
Neonatal herpes simplex virus infection: Management and prevention
Neonatal pneumonia
Overview of TORCH infections
Treatment and prevention of bacterial sepsis in preterm infants <34 weeks gestation
Urinary tract infections in neonates
Vaccines for the prevention of group B streptococcal disease
Vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus
Vesicular, pustular, and bullous lesions in the newborn and infant
Impact of universal infant immunization with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in the United States
Pneumococcal pneumonia in children
Pneumococcal vaccination in children
Bronchiolitis in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Bronchiolitis in infants and children: Treatment, outcome, and prevention
Community-acquired pneumonia in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Community-acquired pneumonia in children: Outpatient treatment
Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and evaluation of parapneumonic effusion and empyema in children
Management and prognosis of parapneumonic effusion and empyema in children
Microbiology and pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Neonatal pneumonia
Pneumococcal pneumonia in children
Pneumonia caused by Chlamydia pneumoniae in children
Pneumonia in children: Epidemiology, pathogenesis, and etiology
Pneumonia in children: Inpatient treatment
Biology of Rickettsia rickettsii infection
Biology of ehrlichiae
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Human ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis
Treatment of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Approach to the ill-appearing infant (younger than 90 days of age)
Fever without a source in children 3 to 36 months of age: Evaluation and management
Invasive group A streptococcal infection and toxic shock syndrome: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Invasive group A streptococcal infection and toxic shock syndrome: Treatment and prevention
Invasive group A streptococcal infections in children
Pathophysiology of sepsis
Septic shock in children: Rapid recognition and initial resuscitation (first hour)
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Epidemiology and clinical features
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Management and outcome
Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis in children: Definitions, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Vibrio vulnificus infections
Overview of TORCH infections
Pelvic inflammatory disease: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Pelvic inflammatory disease: Pathogenesis, microbiology, and risk factors
Pelvic inflammatory disease: Treatment in adults and adolescents
Sexually transmitted infections: Issues specific to adolescents
Animal bites (dogs, cats, and other animals): Evaluation and management
Bites by Crotalinae snakes (rattlesnakes, water moccasins [cottonmouths], or copperheads) in the United States: Clinical manifestations, evaluation, and diagnosis
Cellulitis and skin abscess: Epidemiology, microbiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Impetigo
Mastitis and breast abscess in children and adolescents
Mastitis and breast abscess in infants younger than two months
Pasteurella infections
Snakebites worldwide: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Techniques for skin abscess drainage
Vesicular, pustular, and bullous lesions in the newborn and infant
Infection due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: Epidemiology, microbiology, and pathogenesis
Infection due to coagulase-negative staphylococci: Treatment
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in children: Prevention and control
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): Microbiology
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in children: Epidemiology and clinical spectrum
Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Epidemiology and clinical features
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in children: Management and outcome
Staphylococcus aureus in children: Overview of treatment of invasive infections
Suspected Staphylococcus aureus and streptococcal skin and soft tissue infections in children >28 days: Evaluation and management
Suspected Staphylococcus aureus and streptococcal skin and soft tissue infections in neonates: Evaluation and management
Acute rheumatic fever: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Acute rheumatic fever: Epidemiology and pathogenesis
Acute rheumatic fever: Treatment and prevention
Complications of streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis
Group A streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis in children and adolescents: Clinical features and diagnosis
Group B streptococcal infection in neonates and young infants
Invasive group A streptococcal infection and toxic shock syndrome: Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis
Invasive group A streptococcal infection and toxic shock syndrome: Treatment and prevention
Invasive group A streptococcal infections in children
Microbiology and pathogenesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae
PANDAS: Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with group A streptococci
Sydenham chorea
Treatment and prevention of streptococcal pharyngitis in adults and children
Vaccines for the prevention of group B streptococcal disease
Latent tuberculosis infection in children
Tuberculosis disease in children
Bacterial tracheitis in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Bacterial tracheitis in children: Treatment and prevention
Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of diphtheria
Croup: Clinical features, evaluation, and diagnosis
Epidemiology and pathophysiology of diphtheria
Epiglottitis (supraglottitis): Clinical features and diagnosis
Epiglottitis (supraglottitis): Management
Management of croup
Patient education: Croup in infants and children (Beyond the Basics)
Tracheobronchitis associated with tracheostomy tubes and endotracheal intubation in children
Acute infectious cystitis: Clinical features and diagnosis in children older than two years and adolescents
Acute infectious cystitis: Management and prognosis in children older than two years and adolescents
Etiology and evaluation of dysuria in children and adolescents
Urinary tract infections in children: Epidemiology and risk factors
Urinary tract infections in children: Long-term management and prevention
Urinary tract infections in infants and children older than one month: Clinical features and diagnosis
Urinary tract infections in infants older than one month and young children: Acute management, imaging, and prognosis
Acute viral encephalitis in children: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Acute viral encephalitis in children: Pathogenesis, epidemiology, and etiology
Acute viral encephalitis in children: Treatment and prevention
Acyclovir: An overview
Antiviral drugs for influenza: Pharmacology and resistance
Avian influenza: Epidemiology and transmission
COVID-19: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis in children
COVID-19: Management in children
COVID-19: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) clinical features, evaluation, and diagnosis
COVID-19: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) management and outcome
Characteristics of the hepatitis B virus and pathogenesis of infection
Characteristics of the hepatitis C virus
Clinical features of varicella-zoster virus infection: Chickenpox
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of hepatitis B virus infection in children and adolescents
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of parvovirus B19 infection
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of rabies
Clinical manifestations and diagnosis of rotavirus infection
Clinical manifestations and treatment of Epstein-Barr virus infection
Congenital Zika virus infection: Clinical features, evaluation, and management of the neonate
Coronaviruses
Diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of adenovirus infection
Enterovirus and parechovirus infections: Clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Enterovirus and parechovirus infections: Epidemiology and pathogenesis
Epidemiology of varicella-zoster virus infection: Chickenpox
Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and pathogenesis of rhinovirus infections
Epidemiology, transmission, and prevention of hepatitis B virus infection
Gianotti-Crosti syndrome (papular acrodermatitis)
Hand, foot, and mouth disease and herpangina
Hepatitis C virus infection in children
Hepatitis viruses and the newborn: Clinical manifestations and treatment
Herpetic gingivostomatitis in young children
Human herpesvirus 6 infection in children: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment
Human herpesvirus 7 infection
Human metapneumovirus infections
Indications for post-exposure and pre-exposure rabies prophylaxis
Infectious mononucleosis
Influenza: Epidemiology and pathogenesis
Management of hepatitis B virus infection in children and adolescents
Measles: Clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Measles: Epidemiology and transmission
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: Treatment and prevention
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus: Virology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology
Molluscum contagiosum
Mumps
Overview of cytomegalovirus infections in children
Overview of hepatitis A virus infection in children
Parainfluenza viruses in children
Parvovirus B19 infection during pregnancy
Pathogenesis, epidemiology, and clinical manifestations of adenovirus infection
Rabies immune globulin and vaccine
Respiratory syncytial virus infection: Clinical features and diagnosis
Respiratory syncytial virus infection: Prevention in infants and children
Respiratory syncytial virus infection: Treatment
Roseola infantum (exanthem subitum)
Rubella
Seasonal influenza in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
Seasonal influenza in children: Management
Seasonal influenza in children: Prevention with antiviral drugs
Seasonal influenza in children: Prevention with vaccines
The common cold in children: Clinical features and diagnosis
The common cold in children: Management and prevention
Treatment and prevention of parvovirus B19 infection
Treatment of rabies
Treatment of varicella (chickenpox) infection
Vaccination for the prevention of chickenpox (primary varicella infection)
Virology of Epstein-Barr virus
Virology, epidemiology, and pathogenesis of parvovirus B19 infection
Virology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of human herpesvirus 6 infection
