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Intrathoracic tuberculosis in children
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Dr B J Marais
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, PO Box 19063, Tygerberg, 7505, South Africa; bjmarais@sun.ac.za
Keywords: intrathoracic tuberculosis; epidemiology; children
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Tuberculosis has been with human kind for a very long time; suggestive spinal changes have been described in Neolithic man,1 while clear evidence of tuberculous bone lesions have been found in mummified remains from Egypt, dating back to 3400 BC. Hippocrates (460–377 BC) introduced the ancient Greek term for tuberculosis, phthisis, which is similar in meaning to the Latin word consumere, better known as consumption.2 Tuberculosis was so prevalent in the British Isles in the 17th century that it caused approximately 20% of all deaths, and John Bunyan referred to it in 1680 as "The captain of all these men of death".2
Since then the prevalence of tuberculosis has decreased substantially in the developed world, but it remains a major cause of morbidity and death in poor countries. The modern world is an ever shrinking place and the "global village" will truly become a reality during the 21st
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