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Category: sputum smear microscopy

Posted on January 16, 2016June 28, 2016

Childhood TB: symptom-based contact screening safe, reliable

  From total neglect till a few years ago, childhood TB is now taking centrestage. A couple of days back, the WHO released an updated guidance for national TB programmes…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB in children

  Childhood TB has been neglected for decades, but in the past few years the WHO has begun to realise its real impact in terms of incidence, prevalence and mortality.…

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Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

Sentinel Project gives a fillip to managing MDR-TB in children

  The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis is a collective power of a global partnership by experts and others who share the same vision of ensuring that no child…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

‘In 80-90 %, TB bacilli in children same as in MDR-TB index case’

  Prof. H. Simon Schaaf, a clinical researcher from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Stellenbosch University, South Africa has worked…

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Posted on January 14, 2016December 8, 2016

‘Age has a significant effect on the immune system in childhood TB’

Prof Peter R. Donald, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa was awarded the highest honour,…

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Posted on January 14, 2016July 6, 2016

TB: ‘There is a clearly higher risk of mortality in children of 0-4 years’

With 8.6 million people across the world developing tuberculosis in 2012 and nearly 1.3 million succumbing to the disease, and with the number of people with multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB)…

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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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