Tuberculosis meningitis and cerebral tuberculoma
Mendy Mills Sister, Paediatric haematology. oncology, immunology and infectious diseases ward. great ormond street hospital NHS trust, London
Wendy mills reviews the pathophysiology of tuberculosis-still endemic in Africa and south east Asia and therefore significant in immigrant communities-and describes the care of a two-year-old child diagnosed as suffering from tuberculous meningitis
Tuberculosis is the greatest killer of all time - responsible for more than a 1,000 million deaths in this and the last century (1). Since the discovery of anti-tuberculous drugs and the introduction of immunisation and screening programmes in the 1940s and 1950s, however, a cure has been available for those who can afford the drugs and there has been a worldwide decline in the incidence of the disease.
Nursing Children and Young People.
7, 5, 24-27.
doi: 10.7748/paed.7.5.24.s21
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