Older and newer challenges of tuberculosis in children.
Tuberculosis (TB) in children represents one of the best examples of what we have termed an "adultosis"--a disease inflicted by adults on children and not by children on adults--and which can be acquired by direct contact or by the indirect result of various types of abuses, such as social ones. The same socioeconomic and political failures that have allowed TB and HIV to remain uncontrolled in many countries have also contributed to the emergence of multiple-drug resistant (MDR) M. tuberculosis. These older and newer challenges of TB in children and some approaches to their resolution are briefly discussed here.
Nahmias
A J
AJ
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA.
de Sousa
A
A
Freiji
R
R
Lee
F K
FK
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004198:Disease Susceptibility; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011379:Prognosis; D012307:Risk Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control*