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Cavitary tuberculosis re-emerging in immigrant children

Cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis in children is uncommon in areas with a low tuberculosis burden. We present two cases in an 11-year old immunocompetent girl and an 8-year old immunocompromised boy. Both children were immigrants. No other cavitary tuberculosis cases have been observed in a population...

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Autores principales: Perdikogianni, Chrysoula, Raissaki, Maria, Christidou, Athanasia, Galanakis, Emmanouil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6354650/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30733917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.01.018