Management of newborns at risk of neonatal and perinatal tuberculosis
| Autor: | Lucia Cococcioni, Pilar Nannini, Teresa Genoni, Stefania Pisanelli, Vania Giacomet, Gian Vincenzo Zuccotti, Anna Rita Benincaso |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Tuberculosis lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine business.industry lcsh:RC955-962 030106 microbiology lcsh:R Perinatal tuberculosis lcsh:Medicine medicine.disease Neonatal tuberculosis 03 medical and health sciences Infectious Diseases Pregnancy Medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease, Vol 7, Iss 9, Pp 569-571 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2222-1808 |
| Popis: | Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the commonest infectious diseases in the world with 10.4 million new cases estimated in 2015, of which one million are children. The prevalence of active TB in pregnant and postpartum women from high-prevalence countries is higher than 60 cases per 100 000 people per year. Here we presented three different cases of infants born to mothers with active TB and we reviewed the current recommendations on the prophylaxis of neonatal and perinatal tuberculosis. Currently there is a lack of concordance regarding the most appropriate time for TB reassessment and discontinuation of prophylaxis after birth. More reliable diagnostic tests are still needed to help physicians to decide the appropriate time to safely discontinue prophylaxis. An uniform consensus on management of infants born to TBC- infected mothers is highly necessary to improve the measures and interventions to limit the infection at birth. |
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