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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Case Report
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
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author Perdikogianni, Chrysoula
Raissaki, Maria
Christidou, Athanasia
Galanakis, Emmanouil
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description 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 of 103,781 children in Crete, Greece for the past 25 years. CONCLUSION: Severe forms of tuberculosis may re-emerge and BCG vaccination should remain part of the immunisation programme in immigrant populations.
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spelling pubmed-63546502019-02-07 Cavitary tuberculosis re-emerging in immigrant children Perdikogianni, Chrysoula Raissaki, Maria Christidou, Athanasia Galanakis, Emmanouil Respir Med Case Rep Case Report 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 of 103,781 children in Crete, Greece for the past 25 years. CONCLUSION: Severe forms of tuberculosis may re-emerge and BCG vaccination should remain part of the immunisation programme in immigrant populations. Elsevier 2019-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6354650/ /pubmed/30733917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2019.01.018 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Perdikogianni, Chrysoula
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title_full_unstemmed Cavitary tuberculosis re-emerging in immigrant children
title_short Cavitary tuberculosis re-emerging in immigrant children
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url 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
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