Childhood Tuberculosis: A Preventable Disease Not Being Prevented
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Childhood tuberculosis: a preventable disease not being prevented.
In March 2012, childhood tuberculosis (TB) was the focus of World TB Day. This neglected disease still accounts for at least 1 million annual cases and 100 000 deaths in children. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 9.7 million children have been orphaned by TB.1 The articles in this edition of Pediatrics by Wu et al2 from China and Winston and Menzies3 from the United States rem...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-2832