Tuberculosis (TB) is a re-emerging health problem in developed countries. This paper is part of large guidelines on the global management of TB in children, by a group of scientific societies. It describes the indications to hospitalization of children with suspected or diagnosed TB, the isolation measures, hospital discharge, and re-admission into the community. Using the Consensus Conference ...

BACKGROUND TB control is based on the rapid identification of cases and their effective treatment. However, many studies have shown that there are important delays in diagnosis and treatment of patients with TB. The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence of and identify risk factors associated with patient delay and health system delay among newly diagnosed patients with pulmonary T...

BACKGROUND Close contacts of tuberculosis (TB) patients are at increased risk of developing tuberculosis. Although passive contact screening guidelines are incorporated in the national TB control program, currently it is unknown how frequent close contacts are screened for TB in Vietnam. This study assesses current contact screening practices in Vietnam and determines the proportion of househol...

OBJECTIVE To study the trend of hospital stays for patients diagnosed with pulmonary TB in Montreal from 1993 to 2007. METHODS From the registry of hospital discharge summary information, we selected first hospitalizations for patients with a diagnosis of TB, and from the reportable diseases registry, patients with culture positive pulmonary TB. We linked the selected cases, using the first 3...

BACKGROUND Currently, there is renewed interest in the role community participation can play in Primary Health Care (PHC) programmes such as the delivery of effective anti-TB treatment to patients in high-burden settings. OBJECTIVES To explore the feasibility of community participation in a high-burden Tuberculosis Control Programme and to establish how supervision of treatment by lay volunte...

One of the aims of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is to reduce the number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) infection by the year 2015. However, 9 million new cases were reported in 2013, with an estimated 480,000 new cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) globally. Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is the most available and currently used candidate ...

Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) is effective to prevent miliary and meningeal TB in infants [1]. The reports about the efficacy of this vaccine for the prevention of adults pulmonary TB are contradictory and the consensus is that the protection conferred by BCG against this form of TB is questionable [1]. The wide use of BCG vaccination has been unable to prevent nearly two million deaths associa...

Tile basic objective of tilis study was the evaluation of gastric lavage in the treat ment of accidental ingestion of petroleum distillate products, with particular emphasis on the development of pulmonary compli cations. Also, more detailed information concerning various clinical and epidemio logic aspects of poisoning from these prod ucts was sougilt. In addition it was felt that such a study...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known risk factor for tuberculosis (TB), and with the increasing prevalence of type 2 DM in less developed regions, many patients with TB will have concomitant DM. Presently, little is known about the effect of DM on the clinical presentation and treatment outcome of TB. METHODS In an urban setting in Indonesia, 737 patients with pulmonary TB were screen...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial outbreaks of tuberculosis (TB) have been attributed to unrecognized pulmonary TB. Accurate assessment in identifying index cases of active TB is essential in preventing transmission of the disease. OBJECTIVES To develop an artificial neural network using clinical and radiographic information to predict active pulmonary TB at the time of presentation at a health-care faci...