title: Tuberculosis exposure, infection and disease among children with medical comorbidities.
abstract: Sixty-nine children with medical comorbidities were treated for tuberculosis (TB) exposure (7), infection (40) or disease (22). The most common comorbidities in children with TB disease were malignancy (23%), cyanotic heart disease (18%), hemoglobinopathies (18%) and autoimmune disease (14%). Ninety-six percent who received TB medications had no adverse events and 98% completed therapy. Two (9%) died of TB.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Pediatrics; †Sections Infectious Diseases; and ‡Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
authors.forename: Andrea T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Cruz
authors.forename: Omar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Merchant
authors.forename: Affan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zafar
authors.forename: Jeffrey R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Starke
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000755:Anemia, Sickle Cell / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013781:Texas / Q000453:epidemiology; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology*