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Older and newer challenges of tuberculosis in children
Author(s) -
Nahmias A. J.,
de Sousa A.,
Freiji R.,
Lee F. K.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
pediatric pulmonology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.866
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1099-0496
pISSN - 8755-6863
DOI - 10.1002/ppul.1950191116
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , pathology
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 adultsand 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. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.