The global burden of tuberculosis mortality in children: a mathematical modelling study

• Main Authors: Dr Peter J Dodd, PhD (Author), Courtney M Yuen, PhD (Author), Charalambos Sismanidis, PhD (Author), James A Seddon, PhD (Author), Helen E Jenkins, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Tuberculosis in children is increasingly recognised as an important component of the global tuberculosis burden, with an estimated 1 million cases in 2015. Although younger children are vulnerable to severe forms of tuberculosis disease, no age-disaggregated estimates of paediatric tuber...