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    Clinical characteristics of children less than 3 years of age evaluated for TB.

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    <p>Definitions: cough for ≄ 14 days not responding to appropriate course of antibiotics; referred fever 14 days after common causes like malaria or pneumonia were excluded; weight loss/failure to thrivedefined as under 60% weight for height, failure to gain weight for more than 2 months or any loss of weight not responding to nutritional intervention</p><p><sup>1</sup>TB cases—includes confirmed and probable TB cases</p><p><sup>2</sup>Non-TB cases—includes possible, unlikely and not TB as defined in the consensus case definitions for intra-thoracic TB in children by an expert panel.[<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0127323#pone.0127323.ref010" target="_blank">10</a>]</p><p><sup>#</sup> Missing values implies that the observation was not recorded.</p><p>Clinical characteristics of children less than 3 years of age evaluated for TB.</p
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