Paediatrics and international child health

01 27 September 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2734362

Disseminated melioidosis presenting as pre-septal cellulitis and multifocal abscesses in an adolescent with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a case report

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Nikhil John, Pediredla Karunakar, Rajashree Choudhury et al.

Melioidosis is an infection caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei, a Gram-negative bacillus that dwells primarily in the soil and surface water and is reported mostly from South and Southeast Asia, n...

02 9 September 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2731528

Congenital multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in an extremely low birth weight neonate: diagnostic challenges, management and a narrative review

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Choudri Muzafar Paswal, Manoj Sai Vamsi Gudipudi, Swasthi KabiSatpathy et al.

Congenital tuberculosis (TB) may arise from maternal genital, placental or disseminated TB through transplacental, haematogenous spread or exposure to infected amniotic fluid or genital secretions ...

03 28 June 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2695573

Factors associated with breastfeeding mothers’ willingness to recommend human milk banks: a single-centre cross-sectional study in Türkiye

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Elanur Yolal Karimov, Halime Sema Can, Kazım Okan Dolu

Donor human milk is the recommended alternative when a mother's own milk is unavailable, especially for high-risk infants. Türkiye has no operational human milk bank, and the attitudes of actively breastfeeding mothers are poorly charact...

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04 10 June 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2686565

Point-of-care lactate adds to prediction of outcome in children with WHO emergency signs in a low- and middle-income setting

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Clyde Kamo, Rupert Marcus, Francis Pulsan et al.

In 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) published revised guidelines for paediatric Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) [1,2]. These guidelines were developed for low resource set...

05 26 May 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2657620

Variants in genes regulating thiamine metabolism in children in the Lao Thiamine study

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Kristin Cardiel Nunez, Sonja Y. Hess, Taryn J. Smith et al.

The clinical symptoms of thiamine deficiency, or thiamine deficiency disorders (TDDs), present similarly in children with dietary thiamine deficiency and variants in genes of thiamine metabolism. In the rural north of Lao People's Democr...

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06 3 April 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2692838

A tribute on the retirement of Editor-in-Chief Dr Brian Coulter

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Bernard Brabin, James Bunn

We are thankful for the many years of service of Editor-in-Chief Brian Coulter who, now in his 80s, announced his retirement in April. Brian embraced this role from 2004 following on from Ralph Hen...

07 3 April 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2692840

Paediatrics and International Child Health - powerful past, fantastic future

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Philip R. Fischer

The first issue of the Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, the precursor of Paediatrics and International Child Health, was published in March 1981. That was the month I ‘matched’ with a desirable pedi...

08 10 March 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2642442

Umbilical cord myiasis in a preterm neonate: a rare sepsis aetiology uncovered by root cause analysis – case report

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Anitha Kommalur, Diya Hameed, Vasanthi Anjanappa et al.

Myiasis is the infestation of living human or animal tissue by fly larvae and is most common in wounds, body orifices or necrotic tissue in tropical and subtropical regions where hygiene is poor. Of the various forms of human myiasis, um...

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09 7 February 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2026.2626105

A rare cause of massive haemoptysis in an adolescent

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Tanya Saxena, Irene Rose A, Sai Kanth Reddy et al.

Haemoptysis is defined as the expectoration of blood or blood-tinged sputum originating from the lower respiratory tract. Massive haemoptysis, although rare, can often cause life-threatening asphyxia, respiratory failure, shock and, rare...

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10 19 January 2026

DOI 10.1080/20469047.2025.2609525

Successful perinatal management of a large placental chorio-angioma: a case report demonstrating the effectiveness of a public–private partnership model

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Anitha Kommalur, Dhanalakshmi Ramalingam, Niharika Manjunath et al.

Placental chorio-angiomas are rare benign vascular tumours of the placenta which are usually small and clinically insignificant, but large lesions can cause serious fetal complications such as anaemia, hydrops fetalis and an adverse peri...

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