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Case Reports
. 2020 Aug;39(8):e207-e209.
doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002685.

Recurrent Tuberculosis in a Young Child

Alexandra Dreesman  1 , Oriane Stévart  1 , Catherine Adler  1 , Vanessa Mathys  2 , Françoise Mouchet  1
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Case Reports

Recurrent Tuberculosis in a Young Child

Alexandra Dreesman et al. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

A young child, 19 months of age, presented with a second episode of tuberculosis after full recovery from initial tuberculosis disease 6 months earlier. Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated from both episodes were genotyped and differed from one another. We present the first case of proven tuberculosis reinfection in a likely immunocompetent child, living in a high-risk environment favorable for exposition to M. tuberculosis but in a low-incidence country.

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