MEASLES IN CHILDREN COMBINED WITH OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Authors

  • L. A. Ivanova Bukovynian State Medical University
  • M. N. Haras Bukovynian State Medical University
  • I. B. Horbatiuk Bukovynian State Medical University
  • R. Yu. Bileychuk Regional Municipal Non-profit Enterprise “Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital”
  • T. D. Ruda Regional Municipal Non-profit Enterprise “Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital”

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2727.2020.2.11289

Keywords:

children, measles, borreliosis, HIV infection, immunodeficiency, pneumonia

Abstract

The aim of the study was to analyze the peculiarities of the measles course in combination with other infectious diseases in children on the example of clinical cases.

The article describes the dynamics of measles clinical course in patients with tick-borne borreliosis and HIV infection during hospital treatment in the Infectious Boxed Department of Air-dropped Infections of the Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital.

It was found that during combination of measles and tick-borne borreliosis, typical clinical symptoms of both diseases with increased erythema migrans were observed on the background of macular-papular rash. The course of pneumonia as the complicated measles at an immunocompromised HIV-infected child with aggressive combination antibacterial and antiretroviral therapy was characterized by a positive prognosis.

Author Biographies

L. A. Ivanova, Bukovynian State Medical University

MD, Professor of Paediatrics and Child’s Infectious Diseases Department of Higher State Educational Institution of Ukraine “Bukovynian State Medical University”

M. N. Haras, Bukovynian State Medical University

PhD, Associate Professor of Paediatrics and Child’s Infectious Diseases Department of Higher State Educational Institution of Ukraine “Bukovynian State Medical University”

I. B. Horbatiuk, Bukovynian State Medical University

PhD, Assistant of Paediatrics and Child’s Infectious Diseases Department of Higher State Educational Institution of Ukraine “Bukovynian State Medical University”

R. Yu. Bileychuk, Regional Municipal Non-profit Enterprise “Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital”

a manager by the Infectious Separation of Tiny Infections of Regional Communal Unprofitable Enterprise “Chernivtsi Regional Child’s Clinical Hospital”

T. D. Ruda, Regional Municipal Non-profit Enterprise “Chernivtsi Regional Children’s Clinical Hospital”

a doctor of the Infectious Separation of Tiny Infections of Regional Communal Unprofitable Enterprise “Chernivtsi Regional Child’s Clinical Hospital”

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Published

2020-08-11

How to Cite

Ivanova, L. A., Haras, M. N., Horbatiuk, I. B., Bileychuk, R. Y., & Ruda, T. D. (2020). MEASLES IN CHILDREN COMBINED WITH OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES. Infectious Diseases – Infektsiyni Khvoroby, (2), 84–87. https://doi.org/10.11603/1681-2727.2020.2.11289

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No. 2 (2020)

Section

Brief reports

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