Fouad Madhi, Claire Fuhrman, Isabelle Monnet, Kinan Atassi, Christine Poirier, Bruno Housset, Christophe Delacourt
Tuberculosis in children is often acquired by contact with a family or household member. The aim of our study was to evaluate risk factors for latent infection and active disease in exposed children in a suburb of Paris. We examined medical records for the period 1997-2000 at six departmental centers for medical prevention in Val de Marne. Thirty-nine patients aged 18 years or more with M. tuberculosis-positive sputum samples, and living with children or adolescents, were identified. Ninety-one children, aged 3 months-17 years, were exposed to these index cases...
September 2002: Pediatric Pulmonology