Pediatric tuberculosis consultations across 5 CDC regional tuberculosis training and medical consultation Centers

Tuberculosis: 5. Pediatric disease.

Between 1980 and 1995, the total number of active cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Canada declined steadily, from 2762 to 1930; the corresponding rates per 100 000 population were 11.2 and 6.5. During the same period, the number of cases of primary TB among children younger than 15 years remained disturbingly similar: 145 cases in 1980 and 156 in 1995. The rates were higher for those under 4 years...

Pediatric tuberculosis.

Pediatric tuberculosis (TB) is different than that in adults in several ways. (1) The diagnosis of TB is more difficult in children due to non-specific or complete absence of symptoms and difficulty in confirming the diagnosis microbiologically. (2) Young children suffer more extrapulmonary and disseminated TB than adults. (3) Treatment of TB in children is challenging due to the lack of pediat...

Pediatric tuberculosis.

2010;31;13 Pediatrics in Review Andrea T. Cruz and Jeffrey R. Starke Pediatric Tuberculosis http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/31/1/13 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and services, is http://pedsinreview.aappublications.org/content/suppl/2010/03/23/31.1.13.DC1.html Data Supplement (unedited) at: Pediatrics. All ri...

Tuberculosis: Global and Regional Scenarios

Tuberculosis is a devastating public health problem with grave socio-economic consequences. Tuberculosis causes an enormous burden of morbidity and mortality around the world. TB is infecting about a third of the global population and causing an estimated two million deaths every year. In Bangladesh a new TB case develops in every two minutes and one dies due to tuberculosis in every ten minute...

drug-resistant tuberculosis and group 5 anti-tuberculosis drugs