Background: Internationally-adopted children are a unique group of Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-vaccinated children with high rates of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in whom serial tuberculin ...

Background and aims: There is a remarked dramatic increase of the incidence of tuberculosis in childhood the recent twenty years, after the continually decreased the last decades. This fact provokes ...

OBJECTIVE: Approximately 6000 women deliver annually at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, where 2.4% of women has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% is foreign-born. We conducted a ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — Early March, about 230 faculty members and students at Discovery High School were tested for tuberculosis after it had been determined that one student at the facility had been ...