Measuring tuberculosis transmission is exceedingly difficult, given the remarkable variability
in the timing of clinical disease after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; incident disease …

Managing pediatric tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health problem requiring urgent and
long-lasting solutions as TB is one of the top ten causes of ill health and death in children as …

The burden of extrapulmonary and meningitis tuberculosis: an investigation of national
surveillance data, Germany, 2002 to 2009 Page 1 1 www.eurosurveillance.org Surveillance and …

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a leading cause of death in children despite global efforts
focused on early diagnosis and interventions to limit the spread of the disease. This …

OBJECTIVE: We examined heterogeneity among children and adolescents diagnosed with
tuberculosis (TB) in the United States, and we investigated potential international TB …

The ongoing spread of tuberculosis (TB) in poor resource countries and the recently
increasing incidence in high resource countries lead to the need of updated knowledge for …

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The diagnostic gold standard for active tuberculosis (TB) is the detection of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis (MTB) by culture or molecular methods. However, despite its limited sensitivity …

A. Introduction. Bacterial sepsis and meningitis continue to be major causes of morbidity and
mortality in newborns, particularly in premature infants. Although improvements in neonatal …

Tuberculosis in childhood is clinically challenging, but it is a preventable and treatable
disease. Risk factors depend on age and immunity status. The most common form of …