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Ana Alvarez, Mobeen H. Rathore
…ies have led to several new recommendations in the areas of diagnosis and treatment of pediatric tuberculosis in the past few years. Due to the low incidence of tuberculosis in the United States, many primary care providers may not be familiar with these new recommendations.After…
Maphalle LNF, Michniak-Kohn BB, Ogunrombi MO, Adeleke OA
Managing pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health problem requiring urgent and long-lasting solutions as TB is one of the top ten causes of ill health and death in children as well as adolescents universally. Minors are particularly susceptible to this severe illness t…
Joana Vieira, Andreia Fiúza Ribeiro, Paula Correia, Helena Loureiro
Background: Tuberculosis disease under six years is an indicator of recent transmission within the community. We aim to characterize tuberculosis disease in children under six years in a pediatric department of a level II hospital in the Lisbon metropolitan area, which serves a h…
Robert Sinurat
Tuberculosis myelitis usually impacts adult patients and is associated with tuberculous meningitis, miliary tuberculosis, or human immunodeficiency virus infection. Pediatric tuberculosis myelitis cases without any associated diseases have never been reported. The author reported…
Raizada N, McDowell A, Parija D, Sachdeva KS, Khaparde SD, et al.
Background A significant proportion of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) patients go unnotified due to the challenges in diagnosis of TB among children. The experiences of this vulnerable group while going through the TB care cascade remain largely undocumented. The aim of this study w…
Caroline Lacroix, Philippe Martin, Sebastien Turcotte, Steven DeRoche, Vanessa Magluilo, et al.
…TION: Despite being more prevalent in developing countries, tuberculosis (TB) remains an important health problem in Canada. Long diagnosis delays of respiratory tuberculosis are associated with adverse consequences for the patient but also for the community. From a public health…
Bárbara Maitee Carmenates-Álvarez, Ana Dianelis Reyes-Escobar, Yosvany Rojas-Peláez, Yamilka Joamis Peña-Borroto, Yon Luis Trujillo-Pérez
Background: tuberculosis is a public health problem to a world scale. It is a systemic illness that can rarely affect the gastrointestinal tract and it is not very frequent in pediatrics. Its diagnosis constitutes a great challenge. Objective: to present the case of an adolescent…
SushantSatish Mane
Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is a grave problem, with nearly one-third of global pediatric TB cases being from India. In 2020, approximately one lakh TB cases (0–14 years of age) were reported to the National TB Elimination Program (NTEP), with around 1.4 lakh cases in the 15–18 y…
Saldaña N, Parra M, La Garza E, Trujillo D, Ayala S, et al.
…to WHO data, in 2016 10.4 million people were infected with tuberculosis (TB), from which one million were patients ≤18 years, and 250,000 deaths. The diagnosis of TB in pediatric patients is a challenge given the clinical behavior. Methods This is a retrospective, descriptive, a…
Halisyah Hasyim Lubis
Introduction: Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR TB) is a condition where Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to isoniazid, rifampicin or resistant to isoniazid and rifampin as well as other first-line anti-tuberculosis drugs (OAT). Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infectious d…
Venkatesh Karthik S., Jigisha Patadiya
Background: The diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) by microbiological tests is a major challenge particularly in children. The use of Xpert analysis, a rapid genetic testing modality is not widely reported in our locality. The aim of the study to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of G…
Ayesha Tariq, Muhammad Naeem
Background: The prevalence of rifampicin resistance in pediatric patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a growing concern, particularly in regions with high TB burden. Early and accurate detection of drug resistance is crucial for effective treatment and management, especial…
Putu Ardy Hartadi, Putu Siska Suryaningsih
Tuberculosis (TB) in children is often difficult to diagnose due to nonspecific symptoms and limited microbiological testing. Severe anemia in children is usually evaluated for nutritional deficiencies or hematological disorders, but can also be an indicator of chronic infections…
Khurana AK, Dhingra B
Tuberculosis continues to haunt mankind since its discovery more than a century ago. Although commendable advancements have been made in the diagnosis as well as treatment, especially in the last couple of decades, the healthcare burden of this disease worldwide is immense. Conti…
Santos ACEZ, Sztajnbok J, Duarte-Neto AN, Sousa AFT, Lopes AGD, et al.
Disseminated tuberculosis is a severe disease with high-mortality that requires early diagnosis and treatment. Intestinal tuberculosis accounts for only 2% of tuberculosis cases worldwide and is extremely rare in children. We report a case of a 4-year-old girl admitted due to dis…
Diwan Israr Khan, Sana Jameel
**BACKGROUND:** Tuberculosis is a common systemic bacterial infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In India, there are an estimated 2.1 million cases of tuberculosis, with 16% of them being new extrapulmonary tuberculosis cases. Extrapulmonary tuberculos…
Kin-Sun Wong, Yen-Chun Huang, Han-Chung Hu, Yhu-Chering Huang, Chang-Hui Wen, et al.
…he tuberculin skin test (TST) in Taiwanese children for the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB). **METHODS:** A retrospective chart analysis of pediatric patients (<18 years of age) who underwent QFG-IT tests and TST for the confirmation of active TB between January 2008 and J…
Fan Lü, Bochao Guan, Michael Cheng, Liu C, Y Tian, et al.
…st; Chang Liu,3 Yao Tian,1 Ran Li,1 Yu Chen1 1Department of Tuberculosis, Shenyang Tenth People’s Hospital, Shenyang Chest Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, 110044, People’s Republic of China; 2Geriatric Cardiology Department of the Second Medical Center & National Clinical …
Lichao Fan, Bo Guan, Moxin Cheng, Chang Liu, Yao Tian, et al.
…st; Chang Liu,3 Yao Tian,1 Ran Li,1 Yu Chen1 1Department of Tuberculosis, Shenyang Tenth Peopleâs Hospital, Shenyang Chest Hospital, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, 110044, Peopleâs Republic of China; 2Geriatric Cardiology Department of the Second Medical Center &amp; Nation…
Kalra A, Parija D, Raizada N, Sachdeva KS, Rao R, et al.
Background Diagnosis of TB in pediatric population poses several challenges. A novel initiative was implemented in several major cities of India aimed at providing upfront access to free-of-cost Xpert MTB/RIF to presumptive pediatric TB cases. This paper aims to describe the expe…
Osorio N, Reyes MM
Tuberculosis is one of the most common infectious diseases around the world. With timely diagnosis and treatment, mortality in children is practically zero. It is usually associated with a diverse number of complications that can cause significant morbidity and mortality, such as…
Cristina Liscinscaia, Stela Kulciţkaia, Constantin Iavorschi, Iulia Ghimisli, Igor Ivanes
The problem of diagnostic errors of pediatric TB persists throughout the world and in the Republic of Moldova, the main causes being the peculiarities of evolution and polymorphism of the clinical manifestations of primary TB. The COVID-19 pandemic had a negative impact on the de…
Gaurav Sharma, Bharti Malhotra, P. J. John, Shipra Bhargava
…ain purpose of this study is the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) and its drug resistance profile by molecular methods in pediatric patients suspected of pleural tuberculosis. Children ≤ 15 years of age suspected of pleuritis were enrolled in this study. Total 176 pl…
Daniel Capellán-Martín, Juan J Gómez-Valverde, Ramón Sánchez-Jacob, Alicia Hernanz-Lobo, H Simon Schaaf, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a major global health burden, particularly in low-resource, high-prevalence regions. Pediatric TB diagnosis poses challenges with non-specific symptoms and less distinct radiological manifestations than adult TB. Many affected children remain undiagnosed…
AE Galvis, B Batoczki, IS Pecson, Children’s Lung Specialists, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, T. F. Sellers, et al.
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. Among children, TB can have a wide range of non-specific clinical and radiological manifestations becoming a challenging diagnosis, particularly in areas with a low prevalence. We present the cas…