Open AccessTuberculosis Treatment Outcomes Among Children in Rural Southern Mozambique
Author(s) -
Troy D. Moon,
Edy Nacarapa,
Maria E. Verdu,
Salésio Macuácua,
Didier Mugabe,
Wu Gong,
James G. Carlucci,
José Manuel Ramos,
Emilio Valverde
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000002435
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , tuberculosis , odds ratio , hazard ratio , pediatrics , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , cohort , logistic regression , cohort study , demography , pathology , optics , sociology , physics
Globally, tuberculosis (TB) remains a serious cause of morbidity and mortality for children. Mozambique is 1 of 30 high TB and TB/HIV burden countries. This study aimed to assess treatment outcomes of childhood TB in Chókwè District, Mozambique.