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  • Title: [Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in children in Russia (epidemiology, clinical forms and their study)].
    Author: Aksenova VA, Sen'kina TI.
    Journal: Probl Tuberk; 2001; (4):6-9. PubMed ID: 11523380.
    Abstract:
    The paper provides the data of comprehensive epidemiological and clinical studies made at the Clinic of Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents. Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology, I. M. Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, in the past 15 years and dedicated to extrapulmonary tuberculosis in children and adolescents with tuberculosis. Due to the specific features of manifestations of extrapulmonary tuberculosis in childhood and adolescence and to the existing system of prevention and early detection of the disease in children and teenagers in the Russian Federation, the number of children with severe generalized extrapulmonary tuberculosis is not on the rise despite that the epidemiological situation has aggravated in the past 15 years. The clinical features of most common forms of extrapulmonary tuberculosis are shown and measures for their monitoring proposed.
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