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Category: Contact screening

Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Editorial: Missing TB cases in India

Although tuberculosis killed 1.3 million people across the globe in 2012 and nearly 8.6 million developed the disease, the world is on track to reach some important targets of the…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Why the true burden of paediatric TB remains unknown

“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Paediatric TB: should Xpert molecular test replace smear microscopy?

Unlike adults, children under five years of age are particularly vulnerable to getting infected with TB and may develop the disease very soon after infection. This is all the more…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Contact screening: the risk of wrong TB diagnosis

  Of the nine million cases of tuberculosis (TB) across the world annually, children below 15 years of age account for about one million. As per India’s Revised National TB…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB: how many young children are wrongly diagnosed as disease-free?

India’s Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) estimates that children comprise about 12 per cent of the total TB caseload in the country. But in all probability, 12 per cent…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Editorial: Don’t ignore TB in children

After years of neglect, childhood tuberculosis — which accounts for over six per cent of the global TB burden — is finally getting due attention. WHO recently published its first-ever…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

Programme to prevent TB in children neglected

The Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) that came into being in 1997 has to its credit some enviable accomplishments. For instance, it achieved country-wide coverage in March 2006 and…

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