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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 …
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…
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…
Constantin Iavorschi, Stela Kulcitkaia, Igor Ivanes, Nadejda Pisarenco
Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) presents unique diagnostic challenges due to various factors, including the low sensitivity of sputum examination, difficulties in obtaining samples, and the presence of paucibacillary forms of the disease. This retrospective-descriptive study aimed to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Andrew Colin, MD, SM, Shatha Yousef, MD
…evalence of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection (NTM) in pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis in the State fo Florida. HYPOTHESIS: There is high prevalence of NTM in CF pediatric population in the State of Florida, and likely higher than in the rest of the country. Non-tub…
Hospices Civils de Lyon
…entation in areas of high incidence and low economic level. Pediatric cohorts in countries with high economic levels are rare, making it impossible to quantify and describe deviations from optimal recommendations. The French recommendations are mainly focused on screening cases o…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Renee Gresh, Kimberly Davidow, Jeff Myers, D Morley
…s been a metric tracked for the US News and World Report in pediatric oncology. Electronic health record (EHR) based tools may be used to improve rates of vaccination. An oncology knowledgebase is an internal web portal that integrates relevant diagnostic and clinical data from t…
Nora Fritschi, Schmidt A.J., Jürg Hammer, Nicole Ritz, Swiss pediatric surveillance unit
…ckground:</i></b> In Europe, surveillance and monitoring of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains important, particularly in the light of migration in recent years. The aim of the study was to evaluate incidence rates of childhood TB and detailed diagnostic pathways and treatment. …
Mae Anne Rizalyn Allam, Mary Jane Dolores Ayson
Objective: Pediatric HIV is a national health concern that has grown exponentially in the past 5 years. This study aimed to determine the clinico-demographic profile and outcome of pediatric HIV/AIDS patients 0-18 years old seen at the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) HIV/AI…
Trim Lajqi, Natascha Köstlin‐Gille, Christian Gille
…in 2020. Particularly, in low- and middle-income countries, pediatric infectious diseases remain a significant public health concern. During early development, infants rely mainly on the activity of the innate immune responses in the defense against invading pathogens. Until rece…
Nicolas A. Menzies, Tyler S. Brown, Jeffrey W. Eaton, Peter J. Dodd, Ted Cohen, et al.
…d dying from tuberculosis (TB). We estimated the additional pediatric TB cases and deaths that could occur over 2025-2034 if programmes supported by United States bilateral health aid and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) are discontinued. Met…
Dhira Rizki Putri, Marichatul Jannah
…n 2017, Indonesia had 4.950 new cases of HIV infection in pediatrics. In HIV, a chest x-ray is generally used to determine the Opportunistic Infections (OIs) to accelerate treatment. There are differences in the projections and the typical features on chest x-ray in each OI. Th…