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Jennifer Cox, Cilian Ó Maoldomhnaigh, David Orr, Maureen J. O’Sullivan, Timothy Ronan Leahy
…f cutaneous Mycobacterium llatzerense in an immunocompetent pediatric patient. A 9-year-old Caucasian Irish boy was referred to the pediatric plastic surgery department with a 7-month history of a gradually increasing lesion on his right cheek. He had no history of fever, night s…
Ayling Sanjaya
Background: Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem in the world and Indonesia. The difficulty of diagnosis is a major factor in eradicating TB in children. Active and latent tuberculosis in children often shows no symptoms so it is difficult to diagnose and affect …
Abstract Background Location and type of clinic where pediatric latent TB infection (LTBI) care is provided are associated with treatment completion and retention in care. Prior research has not evaluated joint clinical management occurring between care settings. Understanding ca…
Martins CP, Carvalho FR, Faustino R, Medeiros T, Rosário NFD, et al.
…guishing pulmonary (PTB) from latent tuberculosis (LTBI) in pediatric patients remains a challenge, we aimed to investigate the efficacy of immune mediators in diagnosing PTB and LTBI in this population. In this cross-sectional study performed with children and adolescents, serum…
Michael Lauzardo, Meghan Nodurft-Froman
… et al.Underuse of effective measures to prevent and manage pediatric tuberculosis in the United States.Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2008; 162: 426-431Crossref PubMed Scopus (17) Google Scholar, 8Martinez L Shen Y Mupere E Kizza A Hill PC Whalen CC Transmission of Mycobacterium tube…
Miranda-Schaeubinger M, Derbew HM, Ramirez A, Smith M, Jalloul M, et al.
…sitive purified protein derivative (PPD) test at a tertiary pediatric center in the United States. Method A retrospective evaluation was conducted of patients (0-18 years) with a CXR after a positive PPD (e.g., known exposure, employment, migratory requirements or before immunosu…
Séraphin MN, Hsu H, Chapman HJ, de Andrade Bezerra JL, Johnston L, et al.
…495 persons with complete data on INH treatment initiation. Pediatric cases (0-17 years), recent contacts of active TB patients, and non-U.S.-born adults living in the United States ≤5 years represented 25.2, 13.0, and 59.2% of the study population, respectively. Overall, 48.4% f…
Ferhat Demir, Mukaddes Kalyoncu
… of LTBI screening tests under anti-TNF-α treatment, in our pediatric patients with chronic rheumatic diseases.Material and Methods: The data of 47 patients received anti-TNF-α treatment for different chronic rheumatic diseases between May-2015 and May-2018, were reviewed retrosp…
Fernando R, McDowell AC, Bhavaraju R, Fraimow H, Wilson JW, et al.
…g and provider type, frequency of consultations regarding a pediatric ( Results Of 14,586 consultations captured by the MCD in 2013-2017, 544 (4%) were categorized as TB/HIV-related, with 100 (18%) received in 2013, 129 (24%) in 2014, 104 (19%) in 2015, 117 (22%) in 2016, and 94 …
Fabiola De Biasio, Annalisa Aratari, Sara Caporuscio, Iole Simeoni, Claudio Papi, et al.
…een occasionally reported in the literature particularly in pediatric patients [ 1 Sakashita K Murata K Takahashi Y et al. Case Series of Acute Kidney Injury During Anti-tuberculosis Treatment. Intern Med. 2019; 58: 521-527 Crossref PubMed Scopus (10) Google Scholar , 2 Brik R Ma…
Larissa Gorbach
… = 6.8 – 17.7]. The relative risk of TB in adolescents with pediatric infectious diseases was 3.6 [CI = 2.1 – 6.0]. The relative risk of TB in adolescents with acute bronchitis was slightly lower – 3.3 [CI = 1.9 – 5.6]. The relative risk of TB in adolescents with digestive system…
van de Loo K, Balzer S, MacKenzie CR, Boemers TM, Ortmann M, et al.
…own 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 lymphnode tuberculosis in a 4-year-old German boy with relapsed ganglioneuroblastoma. 1…
Lombardi G, Petrucci R, Corsini I, Bacchi Reggiani ML, Visciotti F, et al.
… on samples from 517 children aged 0 to 14 years old at the Pediatric Unit of S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital of Bologna (Italy); quantitative responses to QFT-IT stimuli were analyzed according to diagnosis and age. Elevated IFN-γ values in the QFT-IT nil (background) tub…
Gonzalo G Alvarez, MD
…ent for LTBI.(1) These findings were also replicated in the pediatric population through a pediatric cohort (n=905 eligible participants) nested within the multi-centered international randomized controlled trial with children between ages 2-17 treated with 3HP compared to the IN…
Saborni Dey, Siddarath Kumar, Vivek Tyagi, Venkata Sai Charan
…etermine the sensitivity and specificity of Mantoux test in pediatric patients for the diagnosis of TB. It also assists to study various presentations of TB in Mantoux test-positive patients. Materials and Methods: From August 2022 to January 2023, a single tertiary care facility…
Irina Felker, I. V. Pavlenok, N. V. Stavitskaya, D.А. Kudlаy
…culosis infection (LTBI) among risk groups in the adult and pediatric population in Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts. Subjects and Methods . Federal and sectoral statistical reporting data (Forms No. 33, 8, 30) for 2018-2021 from Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Distric…
Vortia E, Uko VE, Yen-Lieberman B, Frawley J, Worley SE, et al.
…es in nonimmunosuppressed patients (P = 0.004). Conclusions Pediatric patients with IBD on long-term treatment with infliximab had an adequate interferon-γ response to mitogen and a low indeterminate rate when assessed with the QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test. This study demonst…
Sibhat MM, Mulugeta TN, Aklilu DW
Background With expanding access to pediatric antiretroviral therapy, several patients in the developing world were switched to the second-line regimen, and some require third-line medications. A delay in a second-line switch is associated with an increased risk of mortality and …
Kaushik SB, Lebwohl MG
…emic drugs for moderate to severe psoriasis in pregnant and pediatric patients and in patients with concomitant chronic infections, such as hepatitis, HIV, and latent tuberculosis. These groups are usually excluded from clinical trials, and much of the available evidence is based…
Manvi Singh, Nishant Jaiswal, Shreya Singh, Pranita Pradhan, Amit Agarwal, et al.
…ate the prevalence of Latent Tuberculosis infections in the pediatric household contacts of patients of pulmonary tuberculosis in India. Methods: We searched electronic databases PubMed, EMBASE and Ovid for relevant articles. Search of grey literature and unpublished data was als…
HemaGupta Mittal, Shamitha Rangarajan, PAnmol Rathore, Parasdeep Kaur, Dheeraj Bahl, et al.
… years of age with TB who were admitted or followed up in a pediatric TB clinic from March 2020 to March 2022. Clinicodemographic characteristics of children with TB who suffered from SARS-CoV-2 infection in comparison to those who did not have SARS-CoV-2 infection were compared.…
Andrea T. Cruz, Lee B. Reichman
…ss correspondence to Andrea T. Cruz, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 6621 Fannin St, Suite A2210, Houston, TX 77030. E-mail: acruz{at}bcm.edu
Besma Hamdi, Ines Moussa, S. Louhaichi, Ikbell Khalfallah, Nour Mbarek, et al.
… 200 children referred to our TB screening consultation, in pediatric pulmonology department, from January 2014 to January 2017. Children in household contact with a TB index case, were screened for TBI or LTBI. <b>Results:</b> The mean age was 42,3 months. The TB contact was the…
Padma Kalyanaraman, S. Sumathi
…India accounts for nearly one-third of the world TB burden. Pediatric TB has been estimated to account for approximately 20–40% of the cases in India. However, the diagnosis of childhood TB remains a challenge and is a major cause of concern in the eradication of TB. Objectives: …
Megan L Donahue, Matthew D. Eberly, David R. Stagliano, Michael Rajnik
…DOT, we implemented TeleMedicine LTBI DOT within a military pediatric infectious diseases clinic. Local providers were requested to refer patients aged two and older diagnosed with LTBI to our DOT TeleMedicine clinic. All patients without absolute contraindications for receiving …