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New concepts in childhood tuberculosisJeffrey R Starke
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children s Hospital, 1102 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 19:306-13. 2007..Childhood tuberculosis has long been neglected in international tuberculosis control efforts. There are, however, many opportunities to prevent childhood tuberculosis that are not being fully employed...
Commentary: The natural history of nontuberculous mycobacterial cervical adenitisJeffrey R Starke
Department of Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:923-4. 2008
Pediatric tuberculosis: time for a new approachJeffrey R Starke
Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Tuberculosis (Edinb) 83:208-12. 2003
Childhood tuberculosis: treatment strategies and recent advancesJ R Starke
Texas Children s Hospital, MC 3 2371, 1102 Bates Street, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Paediatr Respir Rev 2:103-12. 2001..Finally, the next frontier of antituberculosis therapy may be the manipulation of the host immune system...
Directly observed therapy for tuberculosis in childrenJ R Starke
Department of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Baylor College of Medicine, Clinical Care Center, Houston, TX 77030 3498, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol Suppl 18:131-5. 1999..In countries with adequate resources, DOT should be considered the standard of care for children with tuberculosis disease. The goal for the world should be to treat every child with tuberculosis with DOT...
Diagnosis of tuberculosis in children: increased need for better methodsE A Khan
Baylor Collge of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 1:115-23. 1995..Better techniques would especially benefit children and infants in whom early diagnosis is imperative for preventing progressive TB...
Congenital tuberculosis presenting as sepsis syndrome: case report and review of the literatureM A Mazade
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 20:439-42. 2001..We reviewed six other cases with a similar presentation. Congenital tuberculosis should be in the differential of the infant presenting acutely with sepsis syndrome...
Interpretation of repeat tuberculin skin testing in international adoptees: conversions or boostingAnna M Mandalakas
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 27:913-9. 2008..No study has measured the incidence of TST conversion in these children...
Clinical manifestations of tuberculosis in childrenAndrea T Cruz
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Paediatr Respir Rev 8:107-17. 2007..This is reflected in the low yield of diagnostic tests; consequently, the diagnosis of tuberculosis is often based upon a positive skin test, epidemiological information, and compatible clinical and radiographic presentation...
Mycobacterium simiae complex infection in an immunocompetent childAndrea T Cruz
Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Disease, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children s Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030 2399, USA
J Clin Microbiol 45:2745-6. 2007..We describe a pediatric case of Mycobacterium simiae complex lymphadenitis in an immunocompetent child and review the natural history, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and current management of the disease...
Interferon-gamma release assays for diagnosis of tuberculosis infection in childrenJeffrey R Starke
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 25:941-2. 2006
Epidemiology of pediatric tuberculosis using traditional and molecular techniques: Houston, TexasSusan H Wootton
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA
Pediatrics 116:1141-7. 2005..Recent transmission plays a significant role in the transmission of TB to children as evident by the high degree of clustering found in our study population...
Alleles of the NRAMP1 gene are risk factors for pediatric tuberculosis diseaseSuneil Malik
McGill Centre for the Study of Host Resistance, Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:12183-8. 2005..To explain the different direction of allelic association between adult and pediatric disease, we hypothesize that NRAMP1 influences the speed of progression from infection to tuberculosis disease...
Current concepts of childhood tuberculosisAnna M Mandalakas
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106 6003, USA
Semin Pediatr Infect Dis 16:93-104. 2005..The challenges of accurate surveillance, confirmation of diagnoses, and effective treatment of childhood TB in resource-poor settings are highlighted...
Treatment of childhood tuberculosis with a six month directly observed regimen of only two weeks of daily therapyFahad S Al-Dossary
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 21:91-7. 2002..Determining treatment response in pediatric tuberculosis is difficult because of the slow resolution of chest radiograph abnormalities. DOT is an important aspect of treatment but does not solve all problems with treatment adherence...
Childhood tuberculosis: ending the neglectJeffrey R Starke
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 6:373-4. 2002
American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America: treatment of tuberculosisHenry M Blumberg
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 167:603-62. 2003
Population pharmacokinetic modeling of pyrazinamide in children and adults with tuberculosisMin Zhu
Department of Medicine, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver, CO 80206, USA
Pharmacotherapy 22:686-95. 2002..Apparent half-life was somewhat shorter than that in previous reports. Compared with adults, absorption of pyrazinamide in children appeared more likely to be incomplete or delayed...
Tuberculosis screening in immigrant childrenAnna M Mandalakas
School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 23:71-2. 2004
