A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), and the University of São ...

Children living in high tuberculosis (TB) burden areas are at a higher risk of developing TB by the age of 10.

A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...

Ten percent of children in high-burden tuberculosis (TB) settings may develop the disease by the age of ten. This is ...

S aureus, Moraxella catarrhalis, Legionella species, Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... suggest that more than 50% of community-acquired pneumonia occurs in individuals with impaired host defenses.

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood.

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They estimate that upcoming vaccines against tuberculosis and Klebsiella pneumoniae, which can cause pneumonia and infections in wounds and the bloodstream, could avert more than 500,000 deaths ...

Can’t Shake That Cough? Walking Pneumonia Is on the RiseYoung children are increasingly being infected with bacteria that can lead to the illness known as walking pneumonia. A hallmark symptom ...

A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is the first birth cohort study to assess TB infection and active TB disease during children’s first decade of life in high-burden ...