One Million Children Affected by TB every year , 32,000 children are suffering from tuberculosis TB bacteria resistant to drugs

 One Million Children Affected by TB every year , 32,000 children are suffering from tuberculosis TB bacteria resistant to drugs

Approximately one million children under the age of 15 years around the world infected with tuberculosis ( TB ) each year . This figure is two times larger than previously thought, according to a new study from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School .

Approximately 32,000 children are suffering from tuberculosis TB bacteria are resistant to the drug , according to research released in the journal Lancet on the Sunday .

TB expert difficulty finding traces of airborne infectious disease that is on the child . The diagnosis is difficult with standard methods commonly used in adults . TB also have different effects on children . Doctors said TB can develop in parts of the body other than the lungs for 30 % of children who had suffered from tuberculosis .

This is the first study that calculates the number of children with TB are not susceptible to the drug . This problem is increasingly causing concern among pediatricians because TB specialist TB bacteria are difficult to treat it continues to spread across the world ..

To get this figure , researchers used several data sources . This step is based on the proportion of the number of children of their TB disease is not detected by the patient saliva test .

With a different methodology , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) estimates that about 530,000 children each year are exposed to TB . However, the WHO and other public health agencies say guesstimate and research methodology for TB in a child's body is still developing . The method estimates the number of new TB cases children were first developed about three years ago .

Public health agencies usually focus their work against TB in adults. This is because adults can be contagious TB , while TB is believed the child will not spread . But that mindset changed , along with the spread of drug -resistant TB . In addition , morbidity is now known to the child if he was exposed to TB .

Once infected with the TB bacteria , the child may fall ill more quickly than adults . A child who is infected with TB showed that the spread of TB in adults in the family and other people around him , said Mercedes Becerra , associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard Medical School . He is also a researcher in this study . " One million children with TB shows our failure in preventing the transmission of TB each year , " said Becerra .WSJ