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Mandera I, Ayebazibwe G, Tumusiime A, Byamukama T, Mfitumukiza V, et al.
…rculosis (TB) and >214,000 died in 2022. The integration of pediatric TB screening should help in the identification and management of cases among children attending clinics at entry points. This study aimed to establish the extent of integrating pediatric TB screening into mains…
Daniela Russo
…rculosis (TB) remains a major public health problem. In the pediatric population, the prevention and diagnosis of TB is considered a major challenge. For this reason, this scoping review will be conducted in order to systematically map the research carried out in this area and id…
Pratik P Padyal, Sandeep M. Bhelkar, Vivekanand B Chachere, Lalitkumar Patle, Teresa Bansod
…ublic health challenge in India, particularly in vulnerable pediatric populations within tribal regions.Despite ongoing efforts under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), there is limited data on the epidemiological profile and spatial distribution of pediatric…
Harrist AV, McDaniel CJ, Wortham JM, Althomsons SP
Introduction Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) cases are sentinel events for Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in communities because children, by definition, must have been infected relatively recently. However, these events are not consistently identified by genotype-dependent …
Kim Y, Bae KS, Choi UY, Han SB, Kim JH
Background The treatment of pediatric patients with latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is a crucial TB control strategy. LTBI is not a reportable communicable disease, and data regarding LTBI treatment in pediatric patients in Korea are scarce. This study aimed to investigate t…
Wun-Yan Huang, Ming-Sheng Lee, Liang-Mei Lin, Yichen Liu
…hod in predicting sputum culture results for critically ill pediatric patients.MethodsFrom June 2008 to June 2018, patients with pneumonia with an endotracheal or a tracheostomy tube in place in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Changhua Christian Hospital were enrolled retros…
Rika Oktania Sari, Bayu Prabowo
Introduction: Pediatric tuberculosis can cause a variety of problems, including growth failure, disability, and death. In 2021, WHO recorded 10.6 million individuals had tuberculosis globally, with pediatric tuberculosis accounting for 11% of these cases. Indonesia is the second …
German Josuet Lapo‐Talledo, María José Jaramillo-Montaño, Carlos M. Reyes, Carlos Andrés Parrales Cevallos, A. Parra, et al.
…culosis hospitalizations were analyzed, 2,955 (16.67%) were pediatric patients, 14,769 (83.33%) were adults. Adults showed higher proportion of deaths (10.31%) than children (1.83%). Tuberculosis of lung was the most frequent type in both children and adults (n=11,284; 63.67%). G…
Mardiati, Anna Millizia, Noviana Zara, Khania Atika, Najwa Zakiyya
Background: Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health issue, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. In areas such as Aceh, the nutritional needs of pediatric TB patients are frequently neglected, with treatment primarily addressing the causes of infecti…
Alicia Hernanz-Lobo, Juan J Gómez-Valverde, Ángel Lancharro, Ramón Sánchez-Jacob, José Luis Ribó, et al.
…t radiography (CXR) is the most widely used imaging tool in pediatric tuberculosis (TB) diagnostic pathways, and remains central in current WHO algorithms. However, its standalone diagnostic accuracy has not been well established in standardized multicenter evaluations. This stud…
G Fekadu, F Bekele, K Bekele, T Girma, G Mosisa, et al.
…berculosis drugs result in non-adherence to treatment among pediatric patients. Hence, this study was aimed to evaluate pediatrics adherence status among tuberculosis pediatric patients on anti-tuberculosis treatment at Nekemte Specialized Hospital.Methods: A health facility-base…
Weldetsadik AY, Abayneh M, Abraha M, Sirgu S, Bekele D
Introduction Most previous pediatric COVID-19 studies reported milder disease in children. However, there are limited pediatric data from low-income settings. We aimed to assess the characteristics and outcomes of pediatric COVID-19 in Ethiopia. Setting St. Paul's COVID-19 treatm…
Marina Bahaa Monir Zakhary Gad El Sayed, Dennis Tai, Lucy Yu, Daniel Novak, Amrita Dosanjh
…tcomes of pulmonary NTM infections in a non-cystic fibrosis pediatric population from four distinct age groups. **METHODS:** A retrospective study as cross-sectional design for data collection from the TriNetX platform, a global electronic health record database. Inclusion crite…
Kelly Walblay, Tristan D. McPherson, Elissa Roop, David F. Soglin, Ann Valley, et al.
…evalence of C. auris colonization has not been described in pediatric populations in the United States, and limited data exist on CPO colonization in children outside intensive care units. The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) conducted a PPS to assess C. auris and CPO c…
Wang DM, Wang C, An Q, Yang Q, Liao Y
…ample, dynamic epidemiology, and characteristic analysis of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in Southwest China is not clear. Herein, we conducted descriptive dynamic epidemiology, characteristic analysis and geographical distribution study of pediatric TB inpatients in Southwest Chin…
Alexandra R Linn, Andrew P. Steenhoff
…ground The WHO currently estimates that at least a third of pediatric and adolescent tuberculosis cases go untreated or incompletely treated each year. Many cases are detected but lost to follow-up due to underreporting to national or private surveillance systems. Methods We cond…
…ground The WHO currently estimates that at least a third of pediatric and adolescent tuberculosis cases go untreated or incompletely treated each year. Many cases are detected but lost to follow-up due to underreporting to national or private surveillance systems. Methods We cond…
Raizada N, Khaparde SD, Salhotra VS, Rao R, Kalra A, et al.
…ajor cities of India to address TB diagnostic challenges in pediatric population, by offering free of cost Xpert testing to pediatric presumptive TB cases, thereby paving the way for better TB care. Methods A high throughput lab was established in each of the four project cities,…
Awang H, Nik Husain NR, Abdullah H
Objectives We sought to determine the total proportion of pediatric tuberculosis cases, characterize tuberculosis by its anatomical location and pretreatment sputum smear status, and to determine the association of the sociodemographic and clinical factors with tuberculosis disea…
H. B. Luan, Q Deng, Sheng Wang, M Mamat, Huiping Guo, et al.
…ervicothoracic segmental tuberculosis (TB) with kyphosis in pediatric patients.Methods: The clinical data of 15 pediatric patients admitted to our hospital from January 2010 to December 2017 who underwent staged posterior–anterior combined surgery for cervicothoracic segmental TB…
Lyu M, Zhou J, Cheng Y, Chong W, Wu K, et al.
…ntify proper respiratory-related sample types for adult and pediatric pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), respectively, by comparing performance of Xpert MTB/RIF when using bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), induced sputum (IS), expectorated sputum (ES), nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPAs), and…
Christine Anterasian, Kim Dill-McFarland, Josh Ivie, Humphrey Mulenga, Justin Shenje, et al.
…among common host variants contributes to susceptibility to pediatric tuberculosis (TB) disease. Methods We used a case-control study with a 12–36-month prospective observation period to examine pediatric TB susceptibility in children 2 mo–5 years with household Mycobacterium tub…
Xiaojun Wang, Cuili Yang, Meilan Zhou, Cuiping Xiao, Xiaolu Yu, et al.
**BACKGROUND:** Research on the economic burden of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains scarce. This study aims to investigate the hospitalization characteristics, direct medical expenses, and key determinants of hospitalization costs in pediatric TB patients. **METHODS:** We con…
Km Roma, Suvesh Shrestha, Nirajan Bhandari, Gaurav Jung Shah, Shivam Khetan
Introduction: Pediatric tuberculosis is an infectious disease and is a leading cause of death in Nepal. The incidence of pediatric TB is a key tool of ongoing transmission of tuberculosis within the community and vital indicator of disease control. Its diagnosis is very much chal…
Susanna Esposito, Beatrice Rita Campana, Gaia Giorgia Arnesano, Nicola Principi
Background: Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health concern, accounting for a substantial proportion of TB-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. Treatment in children is particularly challenging due to age-specific pharmacokinetics, difficulties in drug adm…