Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años

A clinical experience of tuberculosis (TB) in 104 pediatric patients observed at the Hospital Regional de Valdivia (southern Chile), along a sixteen year period (1986 - 2001) is presented. Pulmonary TB was diagnosed in 88 cases, extrapulmonary TB in 19 cases and both localizations in three cases. Pu...

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Autores principales:	BURGOS L.,ROBERTO, HEISE G.,SANDRA, RIOS R.,RICHARD, NEUMANN J.,IRENE
Lenguaje:	Spanish / Castilian
Publicado:	Sociedad Chilena de Infectología 2002
Materias:	Pediatric tuberculosis Gastric aspirate Congenital
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0716-101820020004000052005-10-07Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 añosBURGOS L.,ROBERTOHEISE G.,SANDRARIOS R.,RICHARDNEUMANN J.,IRENE Pediatric tuberculosis Gastric aspirate Congenital A clinical experience of tuberculosis (TB) in 104 pediatric patients observed at the Hospital Regional de Valdivia (southern Chile), along a sixteen year period (1986 - 2001) is presented. Pulmonary TB was diagnosed in 88 cases, extrapulmonary TB in 19 cases and both localizations in three cases. Pulmonary TB was bacteriologically confirmed in 62.5% of cases, through either gastric aspirate or sputum samples. Gastric aspirate yielded 42.8% of positive cultures; two infants who presented central nervous system involvement, died. A case of congenital TB was observed in a 30 day old infant. There were no cases of AIDS in this experience. Pediatric TB has progressively decreased its incidence in our region, particularly the extrapulmonary localization, but still represents a challenging disease to cliniciansinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de InfectologíaRevista chilena de infectología v.19 n.4 20022002-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-10182002000400005es10.4067/S0716-10182002000400005
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language	Spanish / Castilian
topic	Pediatric tuberculosis Gastric aspirate Congenital
spellingShingle	Pediatric tuberculosis Gastric aspirate Congenital BURGOS L.,ROBERTO HEISE G.,SANDRA RIOS R.,RICHARD NEUMANN J.,IRENE Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años
description	A clinical experience of tuberculosis (TB) in 104 pediatric patients observed at the Hospital Regional de Valdivia (southern Chile), along a sixteen year period (1986 - 2001) is presented. Pulmonary TB was diagnosed in 88 cases, extrapulmonary TB in 19 cases and both localizations in three cases. Pulmonary TB was bacteriologically confirmed in 62.5% of cases, through either gastric aspirate or sputum samples. Gastric aspirate yielded 42.8% of positive cultures; two infants who presented central nervous system involvement, died. A case of congenital TB was observed in a 30 day old infant. There were no cases of AIDS in this experience. Pediatric TB has progressively decreased its incidence in our region, particularly the extrapulmonary localization, but still represents a challenging disease to clinicians
author	BURGOS L.,ROBERTO HEISE G.,SANDRA RIOS R.,RICHARD NEUMANN J.,IRENE
author_facet	BURGOS L.,ROBERTO HEISE G.,SANDRA RIOS R.,RICHARD NEUMANN J.,IRENE
author_sort	BURGOS L.,ROBERTO
title	Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años
title_short	Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años
title_full	Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años
title_fullStr	Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años
title_full_unstemmed	Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años
title_sort	tuberculosis infantil en valdivia: experiencia clínica en 16 años
publisher	Sociedad Chilena de Infectología
publishDate	2002
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-10182002000400005
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Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia: Experiencia clínica en 16 años

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