Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents: Progress and Perseverance

Stephen M Graham^{1

2}, Ben J Marais³, Farhana Amanullah⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Paediatrics and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia.
² The Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia.
³ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
⁴ Department of Paediatrics, The Indus Hospital and Health Network, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi 75500, Pakistan.

Editorial

Stephen M Graham et al. Pathogens. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 24;11(4):392.

doi: 10.3390/pathogens11040392.

Stephen M Graham^{1

2}, Ben J Marais³, Farhana Amanullah⁴

¹ Department of Paediatrics and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia.
² The Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia.
³ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia.
⁴ Department of Paediatrics, The Indus Hospital and Health Network, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi 75500, Pakistan.

Abstract

Although it is an ancient pathogen, tuberculosis (TB) remains a major infectious cause of death globally, transiently displaced by COVID-19 [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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