Kakali Roy, Bageshree Saha, Sandipan Sen, Nivedita Manna, Shreyanshi Biswas, Tania Roy, Tilling Tani, Bakul Sarkar, Tapan Kumar SinhaMahapatra
Congenital tuberculosis (CTB) is the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection from mother to infant during the intrauterine period or delivery. An 82-day-old infant presented to Nilratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, with a history of persistent fever from Day 15 of age. Over the course of more than 2 months, there were pneumonia, hepatosplenomegaly and endophthalmitis which were unresponsive to a range of antibiotics, and there had been several admissions to local hospitals. On this admission, his chest radiograph and contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CECT) of the thorax demonstrated bilateral nodules and enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes...
October 25, 2022: Paediatrics and International Child Health