Mycobacterial Diseases
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Laszlo Kadar

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• Research Article
  Cost of Tuberculosis in Childhood
  Author(s): Reka Bodnar, Laszlo Kadar, Akos Somoskovi and Agnes MeszarosReka Bodnar, Laszlo Kadar, Akos Somoskovi and Agnes Meszaros
  
  Background: Cost of management of tuberculosis (TB) has high expenses from both patient and health insurance perspective. Methods: A systematic review on cost analysis of TB in children was executed in Ovid-MEDLINE for the period 1991-2011. Search terms were tuberculosis, cost and childhood. Review articles, commentaries, letters were excluded. Results: The first search resulted 156 articles, after linguistic and content screening 16 articles were considered for further analysis. The topics related to the cost-analysis were latent tuberculosis infection, BCG vaccination, cost-effectiveness of TB control program, TB screening, extrapulmonary TB, TB in resource rich and resource poor countries. Conclusion: After processing the results of the articles, it was identified that tuberculosis screening.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-1068.1000102

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