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The symptoms, clinical features and chest radiography (CR) features of 340 children aged <13 years with suspected TB were prospectively evaluated. Results are tabulated.
Tuberculin testing was positive in 39% of confirmed cases and 51% of probable TB.
Conclusions: Symptoms and signs were of little diagnostic help. Adult PTB contact and poor nutrition is common in endemic areas. Greatest specificity, besides a positive culture for M. tuberculosis, was provided by lymphadenopathy on CR and a positive tuberculin test. For epidemiological purposes better verifiable conditions i.e. miliary TB and TB meningitis should be utilised.
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Schaaf, H., Beyers, N., Gie, R. et al. 344 TUBERCULUSIS (TB) IN CHILDREN: AN EVALUATION OF CLINICAL FEATURES AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS AS DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA. Pediatr Res 36, 60 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199407000-00344
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199407000-00344