Fernando Baquero-Artigao, Teresa Del Rosal, Lola Falcón-Neyra, Laura Ferreras-Antolín, David Gómez-Pastrana, Alicia Hernanz-Lobo, Ana Méndez-Echevarría, Antoni Noguera-Julian, María Teresa Pascual Sánchez, Paula Rodríguez-Molino, Roi Piñeiro-Pérez, Begoña Santiago-García, Antoni Soriano-Arandes
According to World Health Organization estimates, more than 1 million patients aged less than 15 years develop tuberculosis (TB) each year worldwide. In some regions, up to 25% of new TB cases are caused by drug-resistant strains. Although Spain is considered a low-incidence country, several hundred children and adolescents develop TB each year. The importance of paediatric TB has been minimized for years due to the lack of microbiological confirmation in many patients and because these patients are not usually contagious...
June 2023: Anales de pediatría