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 ...

She is also the director of SAMRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health. “Many children with TB disease were diagnosed when ...

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 ...

The maximum number of institutional deaths among the infants were due to slow foetal growth, foetal malnutrition and ...

and 3 patients had Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. Among the 27 patients with drug-induced ILD, pathological ...

A Lancet study found that children living in areas where tuberculosis is common have a high chance of both getting infected with the TB bacteria and developing active TB disease by the time they reach ...

An estimated 1.2 million children develop tuberculosis disease (TB) and 200,000 kids die from TB worldwide each year, but the risk of developing TB infection and disease throughout childhood remains ...

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.

“The fact that TB still kills and sickens so many people is an outrage ... (Polansek, 10/31) The Washington Post: Walking Pneumonia Cases Are Rising Among Kids. Here’s What To Know. Walking pneumonia ...

The increase in the rank of HIV disease and its relative contribution to the overall number of deaths has been coupled with a decrease in the contribution of HIV-related deaths such as tuberculosis, ...

Atypical pneumonia, which is also called walking pneumonia cases, is surging among children at an alarming rate in the US. According to People, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said in an ...