Abstract:
Tuberculosis is an ancient disease that is known to have existed in the prehistoric times, and has been a major health burden, even today 95% of the cases are present in the developing countries. The exact proportion of children with tuberculosis is unknown but it is estimated to be between 3-13% of all cases (Ejaz and Mumtaz, 2002). The child with TB in a community will represent a failure of TB control in that community. Patients included in the study were children age between 1-15 years of either sex coming to a tertiary hospital with history, clinical and laboratory findings of tuberculosis. Diagnosis of tuberculosis was made on the basis of WHO criteria, with the support of MT, chest X- ray, clinical history and history of contact with patients of pulmonary tuberculosis. There were total 160 patients include in our study, 109(68.1 %) patients had positive history of contact from home, close relatives and from neighbors while in 51(30%) cases there was no history of contact detected.
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25-29
DOI:
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Published:
Journal: Pakistan Journal of Pharmacology, Volume: 23, Issue: 2, Year: 2006