Scientific Journal of Pediatrics
Five-Site Disseminated Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis with Marasmic Severe Acute Malnutrition in a 14-Year-Old Girl: An Eighteen-Month Longitudinal Observation in Which the Nutritional and Psychosocial Instruments Did Not Agree
Background: Adolescent rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis is usually reported through microbiological and treatment-outcome endpoints, while nutritional and psychosocial recovery is described mainly in narrative terms. Objective: To describe the 18-month course of five-site disseminated rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis with marasmic severe acute malnutrition and assess agreement among nutritional and psychosocial recovery instruments. Methods: This CARE-guided longitudinal case report followed a 14-year-old Indones …