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Cuadros EN, Calzada-Hernández J, Clemente D, Martín SG, Silveira LF, et al.
…rovides practical recommendations on infection screening in pediatric patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases and immunosuppressive therapies. For this reason, a qualitative approach was applied. A narrative literature review was performed via Medline. Primary searches w…
Brendan Mullen, Joy Githua, Jaclyn N Escudero, Jerphason Mecha, Lucy Kijaro, et al.
…lescents worldwide. Diagnostic challenges are pronounced in pediatrics, in which collecting respiratory specimens is challenging and TB is often paucibacillary, leading to delayed diagnosis and increased mortality. We describe the protocol and methodology of the Pediatric TB Diag…
Lee WS, Arai K, Alex G, Treepongkaruna S, Kim KM, et al.
Disease phenotype of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) in children from the Asia-Pacific region differs from that of children from the West. Many parts of Asia are endemic for tuberculosis, making diagnosis and management of pediatric Crohn's disease a challenge. Curren…
Lee WS, Arai K, Alex G, Treepongkaruna S, Kim KM, et al.
Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) is rising rapidly in many industrialised and affluent areas in the Asia Pacific region. Current available guidelines, mainly from Europe and North America, may not be completely applicable to clinicians caring for children with PIBD in …
Olbrich L, Nliwasa M, Sabi I, Ntinginya NE, Khosa C, et al.
…perfect reference standard, Rapid and Accurate Diagnosis of Pediatric Tuberculosis Disease (RaPaed-TB) was designed following a rigorous and complex methodology. This allows for the determination of diagnostic accuracy of novel assays and combination of testing strategies for opt…
Zainab Farooq, Hamza Sajid, Noor Un Nisa Irshad, Sakan Binte Imran
To the Editor, Pediatric TB is a significant global public health issue, with accurate diagnosis being a primary barrier to finding and treating afflicted children. According to WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2024, an estimated 10.8 million people were diagnosed with TB worldwide…
Lindsay A Concha-Mora, Aracely Guzman-Guajardo, Pablo D Treviño-Valdez, José Eduardo Mares-Gil, Oscar Tamez‐Rivera
…on-making, including resource allocation. The use of GIS in pediatric TB is limited in Mexico, where the incidence of TB among children is high. Mexico’s public health system lacks outpatient clinics (OC) for diagnosis, treatment and prevention of TB. Identifying strategic areas …
Clemente Garulo D, Núñez-Cuadros E, Camacho Lovillo M, Calzada-Hernández J, Guillén Martín S, et al.
…e practical recommendations on prophylaxis for infection in pediatric patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases receiving/scheduled to receive immunosuppressive therapy. A qualitative approach was applied. A narrative literature review was performed via Medline. Primary se…
Darin Michael Cozatt
…d preventive care is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)/Bright Futures initiative (AAP, 2008). Within the early childhood stage (15 months to 4 years), TB is classified as "HR2" (high risk 2), behind lead poisoning, which is "HR1" (AAP, 2008), the highest ris…
Clemente D, Cuadros EN, Lovillo MC, Hernández JC, Martín SG, et al.
…s to provide practical recommendations on the management of pediatric patients with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases receiving immunosuppressive therapies. The recommendations specifically address the cases of surgery, fever, and opportunistic infections (varicella, herpes-zost…
Sangeeta Kumari, Aarti Agarwal, Manveer Singh, Komal Grover, Jagdish Chandra, et al.
…atment (TPT) in India remains suboptimal, especially in the pediatric age group. This study aimed to determine the missed opportunities of disease identification and prevention among pediatric TB cases with a documented history of household exposure to a TB index case. Prima…
Vukugah TA, Akoku DA, Tchoupa MM, Lambert E
…ttitude, and practice (KAP) of healthcare workers (HCWs) on pediatric TB management and its associated factors in the Centre Region of Cameroon. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted between January and March 2022. HCWs, selected through a multistage sampling technique in…
James Marcomic Maragia, Jepchirchir Kiplagat, Onyango Dickens, Lazarus Odeny, Stephen Olubulyera, et al.
…nya, approximately 77,000 TB cases were reported, with pediatric TB contributing to 9.6% of all cases and 4.8% of TB-related deaths. Turkana County, a pastoralist region, accounted for 19% of the national pediatric TB burden. The specific drivers of this high pediatric TB ra…
Beyer RS, Franklin AJ, Hatter MJ, Nguyen A, Brown NJ, et al.
…re characterized by inflammation of the endplate-disc unit. Pediatric spinal infection is rare and challenging to diagnose due to vague presenting symptoms. Most cases are conservatively managed with surgery rarely indicated. The authors performed a systematic review to study the…
Muhammad Tholhah ‘Azam, Nurul Yudhi Prihastuty
…alnutrition is also a significant risk factor in developing pediatric tuberculosis. Indonesia is one of the top four high-burden countries for tuberculosis listed by the WHO. The prevalence of pediatric tuberculosis is about 1% of the total population. However, the data on the ma…
Enrique G. Villarreal, Anita Nagy, Ray Lam, Valerie Waters, Ian Kitai, et al.
…en underdiagnosed. Incidence rates range from 10% to 38% in pediatric PTB cases [2]. Airway involvement, initially suspected on chest radiography, is typically confirmed with chest computerized tomography (CT) and flexible bronchoscopy (FB). EBTB can present with inflammatory, tu…
Van Brusselen D, Simons E, Luendo T, Habarugira D, Ngowa J, et al.
… covering a population of 520,000, with an elevated rate of pediatric malnutrition. In July 2017, an adapted MSF pediatric TB diagnostic algorithm, including Xpert MTB/RIF on gastric aspirates (GAs), was implemented. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the introduction …
Earley M, Chirenda J, Highet A, Mujuru HA, Yang Z
Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) represents a major barrier to reducing global TB mortality, especially in countries confronting dual TB and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics. Our study aimed to characterize pediatric TB epidemiology in the high-burden setting of Harare, Zi…
Siddalingaiah N, Chawla K, Nagaraja SB, Hazra D
Pediatric tuberculosis is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in children due to high transmission, poor diagnostic tools, and various respiratory diseases mimicking TB. Identifying risk factors will provide evidence for clinicians to strongly relate their diagnosis to the a…
Caroline Chepchirchir, Dorothy Onyango, Jackie Obey
Tuberculosis (TB) is in the top rank of causes of pediatric morbidity and mortality. In 2017, approximately 1 million children were infected with the disease and 230,000 died. In Kenya, tuberculosis is number 4 on the causes of death with 6.3% of total deaths. Nandi County is one…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…