"Pediatric Tuberculosis in Peru."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, held December 7-11, 1997, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, "The diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children remains difficult; clinical symptoms are nonspecific and skin testing and chest radiographs can be difficult to interpret. Because many children with pulmonary tuberculosis are unable to produce sputum, gastric aspirates remain the procedure of choice for microbiologic confirmation of tuberculous disease; however, yield is frequently low. Consecutive children suspected of pulmonary tuberculosis underwent nasogastric aspiration (NG) and/or sputum...

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