Concomitant pediatric abdominal and pulmonary tuberculosis

Prevalence and treatment outcome of pulmonary and extra pulmonary pediatric tuberculosis in southwestern Iran

 Background: Knowledge about childhood tuberculosis (TB) in Iran is limited. This study aimed to determine the proportion of tuberculosis in children living in Khuzestan in southwest of Iran and its treatment outcomes.  Methods: In this retrospective study, the child’s medical records registered in national TB program (NTP) unit of Khuzestan Health Center (KHC) for TB treatment from 2005 to ...

Pediatric primary pulmonary tuberculosis.

We read the article by Merino et al in a recent issue of CHEST (May 2001)1 with interest, as childhood tuberculosis is one of the major problems in our country, and we have had quite good experience in our center.2 We believe that there are some points in the article that need to be clarified. In the article, the tuberculin skin test result was considered positive if the palpable induration was...

Thoracoplasty concomitant with resection for pulmonary tuberculosis.

Abdominal Tuberculosis

BCG vaccine and pulmonary tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important public health problems in the world and has been declared as a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the first developed vaccines to prevent TB. Unfortunately, BCG vaccine has had a limited duration of protection and has shown controversial and variable levels of efficacy, especial...