Mycobacterial Diseases
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Abstract

Clinical, Radiological and Inmunological Features in Children with Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Review

Amado C A, Ferrer D J, Agüero R and Ocejo-Vinyals J G

In the whole world, tuberculosis (TB) continues being an important health problem. It produces a great number of deaths in children, mainly in the wake of the HIV epidemic. In addition, the globalization with the increased of the international travels and the immigration makes that TB control be more difficult. This is a clinical, radiological and immunological review in children TB where we search to contribute the data in the literature.