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Shyamkumar Sriram, Tareq Abualfaraj, Manal Ali Alsharif, Marwa Zalat, Saad Madani Alawfi, et al.
Patients with latent tuberculosis infection are mainly asymptomatic, but they still carry a notable risk of developing active TB, particularly when the host becomes immunosuppressed. Hence, appropriate diagnosis and management for LTBI are essential. Tuberculin skin test (TST) an…
Kushner L, Mony V, Vu D
…ckground For foreign-born children from countries with high tuberculosis (TB) burden, positive tuberculin skin test (TST) results, associated with Bacillus Calmette Guerin (BCG) vaccination, paradoxically increase the risk for overdiagnosis and overtreatment of latent TB infectio…
Анна Старшинова, I. F. Dovgalyuk, P. K. Yаblonskiy
…d CFP-10 peptides allowed changing the understanding of the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection, as well as improving the diagnosis of tuberculosis in pediatric and adult practice. The article presents the analysis of the Russian studies conducted over the past ten years a…
Anna Komorowska‐Piotrowska, Agnieszka Strzelak, Agnieszka Borowa, Maria Krasińska, Wojciech Feleszko, et al.
…n-gamma-inducible protein 10 (IP-10) for identifying active tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) in children in BCG-vaccinated population, establish its diagnostic performance characteristics, and evaluate changes in IP-10 level during anti-TB-chemotherapy. Methods: C…
Noor Hanoush, Lara Abdulmageed, Salahaldin Fahad
Tuberculosis (TB) has been a well-known infectious disease for many centuries. It carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality across the globe. Pregnant women are more susceptible to TB than other individuals owing to the certain physiological changes that accompany pregnancy.…
M. N. (Mamatova) Toirjonovna, A. A. (Ashurov) Abdukhakimovich, A. B. (Abdukhakimov) Abduvalievich, A. S. (Ahtamova) Khayrulloevna
The situation with tuberculosis among children is a kind of indicator of the epidemiological situation among adults. In the Republic of Uzbekistan, thanks to the established practice of large-scale state prevention of tuberculosis, the epidemiological situation has improved, and …
van de Loo K, Balzer S, MacKenzie CR, Boemers TM, Ortmann M, et al.
Background Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) disease is a generally well-known problem among immunocompromised adults and children. In pediatric oncology, only few cases of M. tuberculosis disease are reported so far. Case presentation We report a case of concomitant l…
A. N. Kuznetsova, Е. А. Бородулина
The problem of the steady growth of HIV-associated tuberculosis has become increasingly urgent in recent years in Russia. Diagnosis of tuberculosis is particularly difficult at the stage of severe immunodeficiency. Objective. to evaluate the effectiveness of the T-SPOT ® method.T…
Verónica Bravo Villa, Emmanuel Martínez Moreno, Nidia Zapata
…h is still the most commonly involved site, extra pulmonary tuberculosis is not uncommon. Even that we're in an endemic country we still have some delay in the diagnosis of such disease. Objective To characterize the clinical and factors that contributes to the delay on the diagn…
Hailin Zhang
There is still much work to be done in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of tuberculosis among primary and middle schools and students.Medical institutions, especially the pediatricians, who can cooperate with Centers for Disease Control and education departments, …
Michael Lauzardo, Meghan Nodurft-Froman
Until recently, tuberculosis in children has received little attention from the international public health community, despite it being a key sentinel event indicating recent transmission and hence a window into efforts to control transmission.1Shingadia D Novelli V Diagnosis and…
L. Perini, Aroldo Carvalho, Marcos Guchert, Rodrigo Marzola, Sónia Faria, et al.
Objective: Clinical and epidemiological analysis of pediatric patients with LTBI (latent tuberculosis infection). Method: Observational, descriptive, analytical and retrospective research, with data collection from medical records of patients suspected of having LTBI treated at a…
L. Perini, Aroldo Carvalho, Marcos Guchert, Rodrigo Marzola, Sónia Faria, et al.
OBJECTIVE: Clinical and epidemiological analysis of pediatric patients with LTBI (latent tuberculosis infection). METHOD: Observational, descriptive, analytical and retrospective research, with data collection from medical records of patients suspected of having LTBI treated at a…
О. Г. Челнокова, AL Khokholov, Л. И. Мозжухина, A. L. Salova
In latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), there are no clinical or radiographic symptoms of active tuberculosis (TB), although immunological tests are positive. Meanwhile, the risk of progression from LTBI to active TB remains high, especially in children. It is estimated that a q…
Prasanta Kumar Das, Somtirtha B Ganguly, Bodhisatya Mandal
Introduction: Tuberculosis (TB) still remains the major public health threat in India. Early diagnosis is a priority as any delay may complicate the prognosis further leading to the failure of an effective control. India accounts for 6% incidence of pediatric TB cases in a popula…
Anita Uka, Frédéric Méchaï, Daniela Maria Cirillo, Lorenzo Guglielmetti, Yousra Kherabi, et al.
Introduction Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of pediatric morbidity and mortality worldwide, with diagnostic and therapeutic challenges continuing to affect outcomes, including in high-income settings. The TBSure study investigated current practices in pediatric TB diag…
Zhuang G, Yang L, Qu L, Liu W, Zhu H
Background Congenital tuberculosis is becoming increasingly common, but congenital tuberculosis infection in neonates following in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) has been rarely reported; a diagnosis of congenital tuberculosis is often delayed due to the non-spe…
İlteriş Türk, Mehmet Çetin, Nesrin Gürçay, Neriman Sarı, Şeref Özkara
…or primary cancer may facilitate the reactivation of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, which can mimic cancer metastasis. The thought of lung metastasis is an important entity that changes the follow-up and treatment approach. Evaluating TB in initial differential diagnosis can…
Yalçın Kara, Mahmut Can Kızıl, Merve İşeri Nepesov, Aslı Kavaz Tufan, Nuran Çetin, et al.
… and fusion proteins, increases patient risk for developing tuberculosis (TB) and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections. In this study, we aimed to investigate the risk of tuberculosis development in pediatric patients using anti-TNF drugs. Method: One hundred and fifteen pedi…
İlteriş Türk, Mehmet Çetin, Nesrin Gürçay, Neriman Sarı, Şeref Özkara, et al.
…or primary cancer may facilitate the reactivation of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection, which can mimic cancer metastasis. The thought of lung metastasis is an important entity that changes the follow-up and treatment approach. Evaluating TB in initial differential diagnosis can…
Salim Can, Ayşe Şahin, Nazan Dalgıç, Deniz Aygün
…a-inducible protein-10 (IP-10) values in serum and urine in pediatric patients in the diagnosis of active tuberculosis (TB) or latent TB infection (LTBI). It also aimed to investigate whether it can be used as a biomarker to distinguish between active TB and LTBI. Methods Our stu…
Ю. В. Мирончук, O. O. Pushnova, Л. І. Чернишова, O. V. Dvizov
Aim: to demonstrate the features of detection and diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection and pulmonary tuberculosis in children from household contacts based on own clinical observation. Materials and methods. A clinical case of own observation of pulmonary tuberculosis and l…
Yu. V. Myronchuk, O. O. Pushnova, L. I. Chernyshоva, O. V. Dvizov
Aim: to demonstrate the features of detection and diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection and pulmonary tuberculosis in children from household contacts based on own clinical observation.
 Materials and methods. A clinical case of own observation of pulmonary tuberculosis…
Yulia A. Yarovaya, M. E. Lozovskaya, Yulia A. Pobezhimova, E. B. Vasilieva, Л. В. Клочкова, et al.
…ly method of detecting functional and structural changes in tuberculosis infection before the manifestation of clinical manifestations. Currently, there are no uniform criteria for interpreting the sonographic pathology of parenchymal organs in tuberculosis infection in children,…
Vishrutha Poojari, K.S. Shah, Ira Shah
CASE REPORT A 20-month-old boy from Nepal with the presumed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) was referred to our pediatric TB clinic in August 2018 because of ongoing fever, cough, weight loss and lack of radiologic improvement despite 1½ months of first-line antitubercul…