Childhood Tuberculosis
Childhood tuberculosis deskguide and monitoring: An intervention to improve case management in Pakistan
... Background: Childhood tuberculosis (TB) has been a neglected area in national TB control programme (NTCP) in high burden ...on childhood TB in ten districts of the ...ongoing childhood TB care ...
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Culture confirmed childhood tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa: a review of 596 cases
... of childhood tuberculosis (TB) to the global burden of TB ...of childhood TB guidance for National TB Programs pub- lished by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the access provided to child ...
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The Global Nature of Childhood Tuberculosis
... Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Stop TB Partnership, USAID, United Na- tions Children ’ s Fund, CDC, and Treat- ment Action Group) have developed the Roadmap for Childhood ...(1) childhood TB ...
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Pattern and Outcome of Childhood Tuberculosis Seen at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria
... of Tuberculosis Research prevention efforts to those areas at highest ...of childhood Tuberculosis at the Univer- sity of Port Harcourt Teaching ...
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Low case notification rates of childhood tuberculosis in southern Ethiopia
... Background: Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is a public health concern causing considerable mortality. However, control of childhood TB receives little attention. The control efforts could be inadequate ...
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Childhood tuberculosis: a concern of the modern world
... As childhood tuberculosis (TB) reflects recent transmission, its burden provides an accurate measure of the level of TB control achieved in a particular ...Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) as ...
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Study of clinical profile and risk factors of childhood tuberculosis in patients attending tertiary care hospital in western rajasthan
... study childhood tuberculosis was significantly more in joint type of family as compared to nuclear family (p < ...of tuberculosis (Table ...that tuberculosis notification rates were related ...
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Relationship between Caregiver’s Quality of Life and Childhood Tuberculosis in Bauchi State, Northeastern Nigeria
... Nigeria, childhood tuberculosis (TB), a debilitating and deadly disease, is highly prevalent and case reporting is poor due to weak health ...of childhood TB ...improve childhood TB ...
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Diagnostic Value of Lung CT-Scan in Childhood Tuberculosis
... diagnosing childhood tuberculosis including: positive contact history, clinical symptoms, chest radiography, microbiologic findings, and tuberculin ...
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A comparative study of Mantoux test and BCG test in diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis
... of childhood tuberculosis (strength of association ...of tuberculosis (Udani; Desai et al, Lothe et al; Dixit et al, Chandra et al, Narain R et al; Datta et al) which is in conformity of our ...
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Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis and Host RNA Expression in Africa
... The study was approved by the research ethics committees of the University of Cape Town, South Africa; the University of Malawi, College of Medi- cine; the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Imperial College London; ...
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Efficacy of Dots in Childhood Tuberculosis using Paediatric Patient-Wise Boxes
... with tuberculosis are rarely ...pulmonary tuberculosis, and cough is often absent or lacks the tussive force required to suspend infectious particles of the correct ...pulmonary tuberculosis can ...
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Primary and Acquired Drug Resistance in Childhood Tuberculosis
... The clinical records of all children with positive cultures for M. tuberculosis were reviewed. A history was obtained from all children regarding previous TB prophylaxis or treatment and whether they were in close ...
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Clinico-laboratory Profile of Childhood Tuberculosis Admitted at a Tertiary Hospital in Nepal
... of tuberculosis patients are children, with high related mortality and morbidity ...M. tuberculosis infection ...extrapulmonary tuberculosis in children as well adults ...extrapulmonary ...
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CHILDHOOD TUBERCULOSIS: CLINICAL VALUE OF THE ELECTROPHORETIC PATTERN OF THE SERUM PROTEINS
... Initial median gamma globulin values in tuberculous children. Roentgen evidence of cleared miliary tu-[r] ...
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GeneXpert: a game changer in the detection and diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis
... Child aged <5 years, with history of household contact with TB, severe malnutrition and HIV infection are more prone to develop tuberculosis. Age is an important factor as disseminated TB is more common among ...
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The potential impact of household contact management on childhood tuberculosis: a mathematical modelling study
... of tuberculosis deaths in children cohabiting with notified tuberculosis cases under no HHCM were estimated to be HIV-positive globally, although this rose to 7% in the WHO African ...of tuberculosis ...
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Burden of childhood tuberculosis in 22 high-burden countries: a mathematical modelling study
... M tuberculosis infection, we estimated household exposure to infectious cases of tuberculosis for diff erent age groups, ignoring exposure outside the ...distribute tuberculosis cases between ...with ...
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Potential effect of household contact management on childhood tuberculosis : a mathematical modelling study
... active tuberculosis, administering 25 preventive therapy courses, and giving three courses of anti-tuberculosis treatment) plus any net downstream costs of treatments can be delivered within this ...
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The potential impact of household contact management on childhood tuberculosis: a mathematical modelling study
... active tuberculosis, administering 25 preventive therapy courses, and giving three courses of anti-tuberculosis treatment) plus any net downstream costs of treatments can be delivered within this ...
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