Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Following World Health Organization-Recommended Criteria in Severely Malnourished Children Presenting With Pneumonia

• Main Authors: Mohammod Jobayer Chisti MBBS, MMed, PhD (Author), Mohammed Abdus Salam MBBS (Author), Abu S. M. S. B. Shahid MBBS (Author), K. M. Shahunja MBBS (Author), Sumon Kumar Das MBBS (Author), Abu Syed Golam Faruque MBBS, MPH (Author), Pradip Kumar Bardhan MBBS, MD (Author), Tahmeed Ahmed MBBS, PhD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Evidences on diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) following the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria in children with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are lacking. We sought to evaluate the WHO criteria for the diagnosis of TB in such children. In this prospective study, we enrolled SAM children aged &...