The current situation in children TB in Slovakia
Authors:
M. Miškovská; A. Dzuracká; T. Strachan; P. Ferenc; J. Melter; J. Fábry
Authors‘ workplace:
Klinika pediatrickej pneumológie a ftizeológie JLF v Martine, Dolný Smokovec, prednosta MUDr. J. Fábry, PhD.
; Šrobárov ústav detskej tuberkulózy a respiračných chorôb, n. o., Dolný Smokovec
Published in:
Čes-slov Pediat 2016; 71 (7-8): 330-335.
Category:
Tuberculosis
Overview
Tuberculosis (TBC) is the serious disease spreaded worldwide. Despite the effort of many health care organisation and national programmes tuberculosis was eradicated in no country all over the world sofar. The Slovakia has, because of the long time elaborated system in detection, treatment and monitoring of the patients, the long lasting favorable situation and downward trend in incidence of tuberculosis, and the situation in children tuberculosis is the same. There was the newborn BCG vaccination cancelled in the 2012 and since the time we notice the accumulation of the total number of tb cases and increased number of serious, hematogenously disseminated forms of tb and tb cases in small children at the age of 0 to 4 years at the same time. For the present the most often are tuberculous meningoencephalitis and tuberculous spondylodiscitis.
Key words:
tuberculosis, milliary tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis, tuberculous spondylodiscitis, mycobacteriosis
Sources
1. TB and children – Getting, Diagnosing and Preventing TB. Dostupné na: TBFACTS.ORG/TB-CHILDREN. Online 20. 9. 2016.
2. Starke JR. Tuberculosis in children. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 2004; 25 (3).
3. Marais BJ, Gie RP, Schaaf HS, et al. The natural history of childhood intra-thoracic tuberculosis: a critical review of literature from the pre-chemotherapy era. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2004 Apr; 8 (4): 392–402. [PubMed].
4. Solovič I, Švecová J. Analýza situácie TBC na Slovensku. http://int.vhagy.sk/hagy/?q=analyza-situacie-tbc-na-slovensku.
5. Barreto ML, Pereira SM, Pilger D, et al. Evidence of an effect of BCG revaccination on incidence of tuberculosis in school-aged children in Brazil: Second report of the BCG-REVAC cluster-randomised trial. Vaccine 2011, 29 (31): 4875–4877. Epub 2011 May 25.
6. Nevická E, Frecerová K. Tuberkulóza u detí. Bratislava: Mauro, 2009: 113–141.
Labels
Neonatology Paediatrics General practitioner for children and adolescentsArticle was published in
Czech-Slovak Pediatrics
2016 Issue 7-8
Most read in this issue
- TB meningitis in the Czech Republic – new encounter with an old diagnosis after 20 years
- The current situation in children TB in Slovakia
- Incidence of tuberculosis at children in the Czech Republic in years 2000–2015
- Tuberculosis in Children – some issues