Management and outcomes of severe childhood tuberculosis in the pediatric intensive care setting: can we identify best practices?

[Article in English, Portuguese]

Affiliations

¹ . Medical University, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Hospital for Lung Disease "St. Sofia" - Children's Clinic, Sofia, Bulgaria.
² . Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
³ . Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ . State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse (NY) USA.
⁵ . Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, Division of Infection, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ . Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, London, United Kingdom.
⁷ . Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri - IRCCS - Tradate, Italia.
⁸ . University College of London, Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom.

Editorial

[Article in English, Portuguese]

Svetlana Velizarova et al. J Bras Pneumol. 2019.

. 2019 Apr 25;45(2):e20190043.

doi: 10.1590/1806-3713/e20190043.

¹ . Medical University, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Hospital for Lung Disease "St. Sofia" - Children's Clinic, Sofia, Bulgaria.
² . Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
³ . Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ . State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse (NY) USA.
⁵ . Barts Health NHS Trust, Royal London Hospital, Division of Infection, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ . Blizard Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, London, United Kingdom.
⁷ . Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri - IRCCS - Tradate, Italia.
⁸ . University College of London, Institute for Global Health, London, United Kingdom.

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