Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children - What's new?

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 97, Issue 10 II, 2007, Pages 983-985

  Zar, Heather J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULIN TEST;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CHILD; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 35648935959     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Dye C. The global epidemiology of tuberculosis. Lancet 2006; 267: 938-940.
2. Shingadia D, Novelli V. Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in children. Lancet Infect Dis 2003;3:624-632.
3. Hesseling AC, Schaaf HS, Gie RP, Starke JR, Beyers N. A critical review of diagnostic approaches used in the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2002;6: 1038-1045,
4. Marais BJ. Childhood tuberculosis - risk assessment and diagnosis, S Afr Med J 2007;97: 978- 982 (this issue).
5. WHO. Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes an the Management of Tuberculosis in Children. Geneva: WHO, 2006.
6. Gie R. Diagnostic Atlas of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children: A Guide for Low Income Countries. Paris: International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 2003. www.iualtd.org (last accessed July 2007).
7. Swingler GH, do Toit G, van der Merwe L, Andronikou S, Zar HJ. Diagnostic accuracy of chest radiography in detecting mediastinal lymphadenopathy in suspected pulmonary tuberculosis. Arch Dis Child 2005; 90: 1153-1156,
8. Zar HJ, Hanslo D, Apolles P, Swingler G, Hussey G, Induced sputum versus gastric lavage for nucrobiological confirmation of Pulmonary tuberculosis in infants and young children: a prospective study. Lancet 2005; 365: 130-134.
9. Moore DAJ, Evans CAW, Gilman RH, et al. Microscopic-observation drug-susceptibility- assay for the diagnosis of TB. N Engl J Med 2006; 355: 1539-1555.
10. Nahid P, Pai M, Hopewell PC. Advances in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. Proc Am Thorac Soc 2006; 3: 103-110.
11. Liebeschuetz S, Ramber S, Ewer K, Deeks J, Pathan AA, Lalvani A. Diagnosis of tuberculosis in South African children with a T-cell-based assay: a prospective cohort study. Lancet 2004; 364: 2196-2203.
12. Pai M, Kalantri S, Pascopella L, et al. Bacteriophage-based assays for the rapid detection of rifampicin resistance in Mycobacteriurn tuberculosis: a metaanalysis. J Infect 2005; 51: 175- 187.
13. Sarmiento OL, Weigle KA, Alexander J, et al. Assessment by meta-analysis of PCR for diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis. J Clin Microbiol 2003; 41: 3233-3240.
14. Boehme C, Molokova E, Minja F, et al. Detection of mycobacterial lipoanibinomarman with an antigen-capture ELISA in unprocessed urine of Tanzanian patients with suspected tuberculosis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2005; 99: 893-900.
15. Gennaro ML. Immunologic diagnosis of tuberculosis. Clin Infect Dis 2000; 30 (Suppl 3): S243-246.