A groundbreaking study by researchers from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), and the University of São ...

"Many children with TB disease were diagnosed when they presented with acute pneumonia, suggesting that in areas of high TB ...

tuberculosis. Without treatment, TB can cause several potentially life threatening complications, such as pneumonia. Learn more about the long-term health complications caused by untreated TB ...

Children living in high tuberculosis (TB) burden areas are at a higher risk of developing TB by the age of 10.

Ten percent of children in high-burden tuberculosis (TB) settings may develop the disease by the age of ten. This is ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood.

The older the patient with pneumonia, the more likely resolution of radiographic infiltrates is to be delayed, especially if other comorbid illnesses are present. If both symptomatic and ...

The CDC says bacterial pneumonia cases have increased in the last six months. Bacterial pneumonia cases are on the rise in young children, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

They estimate that upcoming vaccines against tuberculosis and Klebsiella pneumoniae, which can cause pneumonia and infections in wounds and the bloodstream, could avert more than 500,000 deaths ...

A new study has assessed TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB ...

S aureus, Moraxella catarrhalis, Legionella species, Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... suggest that more than 50% of community-acquired pneumonia occurs in individuals with impaired host defenses.

A new study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health is the first birth cohort study to assess TB infection and active TB disease during children’s first decade of life in high-burden ...