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This article reviewed the nature of functional impairments that result from childhood traumatic brain injury, the recovery process post-injury, and the scope and role of child-based rehabilitation. .
Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection should be considered when nurse practitioners encounter patients with skin infections, particularly if they have recently lived in group settings (e.g., group home, dormitory, military quarters, correctional facilities.) These infections usually present as a skin or soft tissue infection with fever, inflammation, pain and pus. Previous history of MRSA is typically negative. Other documented risk factors are contact sports, sharing sports gear or personal hygiene items (razors, tweezers) without adequate disinfectant cleaning. 
Rotavirus disease kills approximately half a million children annually in developing countries. In 1999, the fight against rotavirus suffered a setback in the developing world and elsewhere when the first licensed rotavirus vaccine was withdrawn from the US market less than a year after it was introduced. It was associated with an uncommon, but potentially life-threatening adverse effect: intussusception.
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