A refined symptom-based approach to diagnose pulmonary tuberculosis in children

Pediatrics

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Marais, Ben J ^a,d   Gie, Robert P ^a   Hesseling, Anneke C ^a   Schaaf, H Simon ^a   Lombard, Carl ^b   Enarson, Donald A ^c   Beyers, Nulda ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Children; Diagnosis; Symptom based; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG RESPONSE; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; INFANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 33845977048     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0519     Document Type: Article

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