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Neurologic and psychiatric complications associated with influenza occurs rarely in the paediatric population, but such incidence can be severe and may even lead to hospitalization, suggests a study.

A mild developmental delay may occur following an infection of viral meningitis in preschool children, according to a study, noting that targeted follow-up must be considered.

A novel prognostic model based on the viral loads of hepatitis B virus (HBV) demonstrates its utility in predicting and stratifying the risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in noncirrhotic patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB) who are not yet receiving antiviral therapy.

Infants born to mothers who contracted influenza infection during pregnancy are at heightened risk of seizures, particularly febrile seizures, during childhood, according to a large study.

A prospective cohort study has shown that in patients aged <18 years hospitalized for acute SARS-CoV-2-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), neurologic manifestations during the infection are common and may predispose them more to new neurocognitive or functional morbidity at discharge.

Adding pyrazinamide (PZA) to the initial tuberculosis (TB) treatment in older patients may lead to an increase in the incidence of adverse events (AEs), particularly allergic reactions, but not in-hospital mortality, length of hospital stay, or hepatotoxicity, reports a study, which used data from the Japanese Diagnosis Procedure Combination inpatient database.