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Open AccessLong-term follow-up of 109 children with juvenile idiopathic oligoarthritis after first intra-articular corticosteroid injection
To evaluate long-term outcomes and prognostic factors in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), presenting as oligoarthritis, who received IAC as the first treatment for their disease.
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Open AccessDisease relapse rate in children with autoimmune rheumatic diseases after COVID-19 infection and vaccination
Paediatric patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (pARD) are often immunocompromised because of the disease and/or the therapy they receive. At the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic there was a great concern...
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Anti-adhesion Activity of Phenolic Compounds Against Campylobacter jejuni and Listeria monocytogenes Evaluated with PCR-Based Methods
Campylobacter jejuni and Listeria monocytogenes are food-borne zoonotic bacteria with the highest notification rate and the highest death rate in EU, respectively. Both bacteria form biofilms on surfaces with the...
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Vaccination for Children on Biologics
Several biologic drugs are available for treatment of immune-mediated diseases, and the number of children treated with biologics is increasing. This review summarises current knowledge about the safety and im...
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Open AccessIdentification of novel reassortant mammalian orthoreoviruses from bats in Slovenia
Recently, mammalian orthoreoviruses (MRVs) were detected for the first time in European bats, and the closely related strain SI-MRV01 was isolated from a child with severe diarrhoea in Slovenia. Genetically si...
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Open AccessProceedings of the 23rd Paediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress: part two
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Open AccessProceedings of the 23rd Paediatric Rheumatology European Society Congress: part three
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Open AccessClinical and MRI outcome of cervical spine lesions in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with anti-TNFα drugs early in disease course
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcome of cervical spine arthritis in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), who received anti-TNFα early...
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Acute rheumatic fever outbreak in southern central European country
A decline in the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in developed countries over the past century can be attributed to the improved public hygiene and to widespread use of antibiotics. ARF seemed to be a ...
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Management of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Clinical Guide
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatic disease of childhood. The outcome in patients with JIA has markedly improved with the advent of biologic drugs. Although early aggressiv...
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Autoimmune and Inflammatory Manifestations in 247 Patients with Primary Immunodeficiency—a Report from the Slovenian National Registry
An abnormal regulation of immune responses leads to autoimmune and inflammatory manifestations in patients with primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs). The objective of our study was to evaluate the frequency of no...
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Open AccessDistribution of MEFV gene mutations and R202Q polymorphism in the Serbian population and their influence on oxidative stress and clinical manifestations of inflammation
The Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene codes for protein pyrin, one of the regulators of inflammasome activity in innate immune cells. Mutations in this gene are considered the primary cause of Familial Mediterranea...
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Open AccessAutoimmune hepatitis as a presenting manifestation of mixed connective tissue disease in a child Case report and review of the literature
Liver disease is rare in the course of mixed connective tissue disease. Most commonly liver steatosis or elevated liver function tests are reported and only a few cases of mixed connective tissue disease assoc...
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Open AccessGenetic determinants of methotrexate treatment efficacy in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
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Open AccessMEFV and NLRP3 gene variants in children with pfapa syndrome in slovenia
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Exploring the Binding Sites of Anti-Infliximab Antibodies in Pediatric Patients With Rheumatic Diseases Treated With Infliximab
Over the past decade, the treatment of a variety of immune-mediated diseases has improved greatly due to the introduction of biologics for therapies in cases that are nonresponsive to traditional treatments. H...
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An Additional Pre-amplification Step for the Early Determination of Fetal RHD from Maternal Plasma
The determination of the fetal RhD blood group is essential for the prevention of haemolytic disease of the newborn; prenatally it can be determined by genoty** fetal DNA. The advantage of fetal RHD genotype de...
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Open AccessPeriodic fever syndromes in Eastern and Central European countries: results of a pediatric multinational survey
To analyze the prevalence of diagnosed and suspected autoinflammatory diseases in Eastern and Central European (ECE) countries, with a particular interest on the diagnostic facilities in these countries.
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Comparison of Genome Sequence of PVY Isolates with Biological Properties
The whole RNA genomes of six European Potato virus Y (PVY) isolates, representing isolates of the PVYO, PVYN and PVYNTN subgroups, were sequenced and the reactions of a range of tobacco and potato cultivars after...
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Expression Microarrays in Plant-Virus Interaction
Since their conception in the late 1990s, microarray techniques have become a tool of choice for monitoring pangenomic gene expression. Although there are a large number of variations on the basic methodology ...
