Potential Limitations of the World Health Organization Criteria for Nonsevere Tuberculosis in Children in a Low Prevalence, High-resource Setting
Our results suggest there is a substantial risk of underestimating disease severity when using the WHO criteria in isolation. Incorrect classification of disease severity may result in insufficient treatment and potentially treatment failure.
Authors
- Matthias Bogyi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6105-602X)
- Marc Tebruegge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4007-0807)
- Sebastian Baier‐Grabner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3187-7123)
- Angela Zacharasiewicz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0511-2138)
- Maria Rothensteiner
- Michael Langthaler
- Alexander Indra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0432-323X)
- Florian Götzinger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1546-8111)
- Vira Chechenieva (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0001-152X)
- Florian Heger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1910-2993)
- Yasmin Heimbach-Weber (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1004-8970)
Institutions
- Royal Children's Hospital (AU)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna (AT)
- Network Group (Czechia) (CZ)
- Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AT)
- Medical University of Vienna (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- Published
- 2025-12-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0000000000005081
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00