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This document discusses intra-thoracic tuberculosis in children. It notes that the incidence of tuberculosis has increased significantly since World War II, with childhood death rates from pulmonary TB and tuberculous meningitis rising by 40-50%. Children are most often infected by inhaling the bacteria from an infected adult coughing nearby. Only brief exposure is needed to infect a child. The pathology of TB infection in children involves both the slow progression of the bacteria and the development of tu
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