Open AccessRecurrent Tuberculosis in a Young Child
Author(s) -
Alexandra Dreesman,
Oriane Stévart,
Catherine Adler,
Vanessa Mathys,
Françoise Mouchet
Publication year - 2020
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.0000000000002685
Subject(s) - tuberculosis , mycobacterium tuberculosis , incidence (geometry) , medicine , pediatrics , disease , exposition (narrative) , pathology , art , physics , literature , optics
A young child, 19 months of age, presented with a second episode of tuberculosis after full recovery from initial tuberculosis disease 6 months earlier. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from both episodes were genotyped and differed from one another. We present the first case of proven tuberculosis reinfection in a likely immunocompetent child, living in a high-risk environment favorable for exposition to M. tuberculosis but in a low-incidence country.