Tuberculosis and associated risk factors among children and adolescent population in Serbia: 12 year's retrospective study.

Introduction: Recognition and epidemiological control of childhood and adolescent tuberculosis (TB) is essential to achieve effective control of TB in general as it presents high risk for transmission in the community. The aim of the study is to provide a descriptive and analytic overview of the trends in childhood and adolescent TB notifications and treatment outcomes and to identify factors associated with treatment success in a twelve-year period in Serbia.

Methodology: We performed a retrospective trend analysis and analysis of treatment outcomes of 596 child and adolescent TB cases notified in Serbia in the period 2005-2016 from all health facilities, as well as logistic regression analysis to identify predictors of treatment success.

Tuberculosis outbreak among high school students in Novi Pazar, Serbia 2016: a retrospective-cohort study.

Introduction: Between February and November 2016, 17 tuberculosis (TB) cases were identified among high school students in Novi Pazar, Serbia. The objectives of our study were to describe the outbreak, to identify potential risk factors and to evaluate the applied control measures.

Methodology: The outbreak was described by time, person and place.

[Adverse events following BCG vaccination].

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is one of the safest vaccines applied worldwide today. Risk of occurrence of adverse effects upon BCG immunization varies with age of children being vaccinated, whereas local reactivity differs among vaccines due to applied strain as well as the number of viable bacilli and type of vaccine. In 1984, Lotte and co-workers analyzed and classified complications associated with BCG vaccination in detail.