Problems and rumination of diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in children / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

Tuberculosis is still a big threat to children.However, due to the particularity of tuberculosis in children, there are many problems in diagnosis and treatment, such as the clinical manifestations and symptoms of children are not specific, clinicians do not pay enough attention to the disease, the specimen for pathogen detection is difficult to obtain, the sensitivity of existing diagnostic methods is not enough, lack of child-friendly anti-tuberculosis drugs, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamics researches of anti-tuberculosis drugs in children and anti-tuberculosis treatment regimens based on children studies.This paper summarizes the above-mentioned problems and their countermeasures and prospects.