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Children with allergic rhinitis present a mild-moderate loss of smell frequency and intensity which is clearly related to the disease duration and severity. The loss of smell can be considered, as in adults, a clinical marker of disease severity.

A 37 year old man developed transient fungemia caused by Candida zeylanoides following a kidney and pancreas transplant. For the next seven months the patient had signs and symptoms of right knee arthritis. Candida zeylanoides was finally identified as the aetiological agent. Treatment with intravenous amphotericin B was successful. To our knowledge this is the first report of Candida zeylanoides arthritis.

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Summary Electromyography and motor and sensory conduction velocity tests were carried out on 57 patients suffering from porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT). In 47 patients (82·5%) the diagnosis of peripheral neuropathy could be established. The neuropathic involvement was classified as axonal in 19 cases, demyelinating in three cases and mixed in the remaining 25 cases. The electroneurophysiological findings were not statistically related to neurological symptoms, age at onset or evolution of the porphyric disease, alcoholic consumption, previous syphilitic disease, impairment of carbohydrate metabolism, functional or histological hepatic abnormalities, nor amount of urinary porphyrin excretion. PCT should be included among the several metabolic causes of peripheral neuropathy which appears to be mainly axonal, asymptomatic and intrinsic.