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ArticlePaediatrics & child health2025

Zeynep Gokce Gayretli Aydin, Nihal Yıldız

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Article in Paediatrics & child health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zeynep Gokce Gayretli AydinFaculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4291-1067
Nihal YıldızFaculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Neurology, Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0989-842X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: Methods: The medical records, clinical courses, laboratory findings, medical imaging, and responses to treatment of immunocompetent children diagnosed with Results: The study included seven previously healthy children aged 4 months to 15 years. Common onset symptoms included fever, seizures, vomiting, headache, and altered consciousness. Radiological evaluation revealed signs consistent with cerebral oedema in three patients, based on T2 and fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) hyperintensities and loss of grey-white differentiation, although brain oedema cannot be definitively confirmed without histopathological correlation. In addition, two patients exhibited clinical signs of cranial nerve involvement, specifically abducens nerve palsy. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated leptomeningeal contrast in four patients, with one showing brain stem involvement. None had recognized immunodeficiencies. Conclusions: This study underscores the importance of considering

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Immunocompetent childListeria monocytogenesMeningoencephalitis

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PMID41424639
PMCPMC12718046

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