Childhood TB
Care and treatment in the clinic
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction to childhood tuberculosis
- 2 Clinical presentation of childhood tuberculosis
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3 Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis
- Objectives
- Confirming the clinical diagnosis of tuberculosis
- Tuberculin skin tests
- Identifying TB DNA and bacilli in sputum
- Evaluation of samples by Xpert MTB/RIF ultra
- Sputum smear examination
- Culture for TB bacilli and drug susceptibility testing
- Chest X-ray
- Fine needle aspiration of a lymph node
- Lumbar puncture
- Additional investigations
- Screening for HIV
- Case studies
- 4 Management of childhood tuberculosis
- 5 Preventing childhood tuberculosis
- Pictures
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