| Autor: |
BURGOS L., ROBERTO, HEISE G., SANDRA, RIOS R., RICHARD, NEUMANN J., IRENE |
| Jazyk: |
Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2002 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista chilena de infectología, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 237-244, Published: 2002 |
| Popis: |
A clinical experience of tuberculosis (TB) in 104 pediatric patients observed at the Hospital Regional de Valdivia (southern Chile), along a sixteen year period (1986 - 2001) is presented. Pulmonary TB was diagnosed in 88 cases, extrapulmonary TB in 19 cases and both localizations in three cases. Pulmonary TB was bacteriologically confirmed in 62.5% of cases, through either gastric aspirate or sputum samples. Gastric aspirate yielded 42.8% of positive cultures; two infants who presented central nervous system involvement, died. A case of congenital TB was observed in a 30 day old infant. There were no cases of AIDS in this experience. Pediatric TB has progressively decreased its incidence in our region, particularly the extrapulmonary localization, but still represents a challenging disease to clinicians |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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