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IMD is a serious and life-threatening fungal infection and its clinical manifestations are like bacterial pneumonia. Patients with prolonged neutropenia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or severe viral infection, HIV and CMV reactivation, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, liver and solid tumors and receiving organ transplant are at risk of developing IMD. Early recognition of the disease and providing life-saving treatment will significantly reduce the mortality and improve patient outcomes. To learn more about Fungal Disease Awareness, please view the video and click this link: https://ph-mims.com/fdaw2020.

Children who survived central nervous system (CNS) infections experience many endocrinologic imbalances, according to a study. Of these infections, meningitis poses the highest risk of subsequent endocrinopathies, particularly short stature.

In the absence of infant hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIg), maternal tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) prophylaxis combined with infant hepatitis B virus (HBV) immunization provide sufficient protection against HBV infection in infants, findings from the iTAP-2 study suggest. However, the risk of infection was not demonstrably below 2 percent.