Childhood Intra-Thoracic Tuberculosis Clinical Presentation Determines Yield of Laboratory Diagnostic Assays.

intra-thoracic pediatric primary pulmonary complex progressive pulmonary disease tuberculosis

Journal

Frontiers in pediatrics
ISSN: 2296-2360
Titre abrégé: Front Pediatr
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101615492

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 14 02 2021
accepted: 12 07 2021
entrez: 13 9 2021
pubmed: 14 9 2021
medline: 14 9 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Diagnosis of intra-thoracic tuberculosis (ITTB) in children is difficult due to the paucibacillary nature of the disease, the challenge in collecting appropriate specimens, and the low sensitivity of smear microscopy and culture. Culture and Xpert MTB/RIF provide higher diagnostic yield in presumptive TB in adults than in children. Current study was designed to understand poor yield of diagnostic assays in children. Children with presumptive ITTB were subjected to gastric aspirates and induced sputum twice. Samples were tested by Ziehl-Neelsen stain, Xpert MTB/RIF-assay, and MGIT-960 culture. Subjects were grouped as Confirmed, Unconfirmed, and Unlikely TB, and classified as progressive primary disease (PPD, lung parenchymal lesion), and primary pulmonary complex (PPC, hilar lymphadenopathy) on chest X-ray. Of children with culture-positive TB 51/394 (12.9%), culture-negative TB 305 (77.4%), and unlikely TB 38 (9.6%), 9 (2.3%) were smear positive, while 95 (24.1%) were Xpert-MTB/RIF positive. Xpert-MTB/RIF detected 40/51 culture confirmed cases (sensitivity 78.4% and NPV 96.3%). Culture was positive in more children presenting as PPD (

Identifiants

pubmed: 34513756
doi: 10.3389/fped.2021.667726
pmc: PMC8425475
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

667726

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Singh, Verma, Jain, Mukherjee, Gautam, Lodha and Kabra.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Urvashi B Singh (UB)

Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Yogita Verma (Y)

Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Rakhi Jain (R)

Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Aparna Mukherjee (A)

Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Hitender Gautam (H)

Department of Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Rakesh Lodha (R)

Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

Sushil K Kabra (SK)

Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

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