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Latent TB 2 year child

2018-06-11 05:37:08
My son had a continuous fever from last 2 months, after diagnose by skin test It was found that he has Latent TB, so accordingly medicine started 12 days ago. For 1st week the fever was under control but from 4-5 days fever is again coming. What should I do? Is there any specialist for child TB in Delhi NCR.
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LRS mehrauli is famous for treating  patients with tuberculosis. However at present its not required to go such a higher centre as fever takes nearly 14 days to subside or sometimes more.

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