Pediatric tuberculosis has been a neglected epidemic, due to the difficulties in assessing its global impact, reduced incidence and lower infectivity compared to adults. Tb disease is suspected clinically when a person presents with the symptoms mentioned above usually together with abnormal findings on a chest xray. A positive result indicates that a person has been infected with the tuberculosis bacteria at some point in his or her life. Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that in chile is far from eradicated. Tuberculosis diseminada o linfohematogena es mas frecuente en lactantes y ninos pequenos y tiene una elevada morbimortalidad. Actualizacion en pediatria actualizacion en tuberculosis. Children with positive clinical history and radiological tests who had been exposed to sick adults or with positive tuberculin skin test were also considered as having active tuberculosis. Identification of populations for testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection 9 3. Algorithms for ruling out active tuberculosis disease 14 4. Active tuberculosis was defined by the identification of mycobacterium tuberculosis in culture, microscopy, or histopathological examination. They are also not contagious, and cannot spread the infection to others. Persons with latent tb infection do not feel sick and do not have any symptoms. Tuberculosis extrapulmonar tbc enfermedades infecciosas. Publicationsecdctuberculosissurveillancemonitoringeurope2016.
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