Erschienen in:
30.12.2023 | Editorial
Current and evolving directions in childhood tuberculosis imaging
verfasst von:
Bernard F. Laya, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi
Erschienen in:
Pediatric Radiology
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Ausgabe 4/2024
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Excerpt
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a global health concern. In 2021 alone, an estimated 10.6 million people fell ill with TB worldwide, 6.7% of whom have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection. Between 2020 and 2021, at the height of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the TB incidence rate rose by 3.6%, reversing the 2% decline per year that was seen for most of the previous two decades. There were 450,000 new cases of drug-resistant TB in 2021, which also increased from previous years. Approximately 1.2 million children below 14 years of age fell ill with TB in 2021, representing approximately 11.3% of all TB cases [
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