Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia Experiencia clínica en 16 años

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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.

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Burgos Laxegue, R., Heise, S. G., Rios, R. R., & Neumann, I. J. (2002). Tuberculosis infantil en Valdivia Experiencia clínica en 16 años. Revista Chilena de Infectologia, 19(4), 237–244. https://doi.org/10.4067/s0716-10182002000400005

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