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of Tuberculosis exposure, infection and disease in children: a systematic diagnostic approach

Table S1. Differential diagnosis of chronic cough in children. Table S2. Nucleic acid amplification tests for detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex and genes encoding targets of mutations conferring drug resistance. Table S3. Differential diagnosis of clinical-radiological syndromes associated with intrathoracic TB in children. Textbox 1. Spectrum of possible organ involvement in TB disease. Textbox 2. Risk factors for TB infection in children. (PDF 617Â kb)

In this paper we study multiplicity and qualitative behavior of solutions for semilinear elliptic problems with neumann boundary condition and asymptotically linear smooth nonlinearity. We provide sufficient conditions on the number of eigenvalues the derivative of the nonlinearity crosses to guarantee existence of at least five nontrivial solutions. The techniques we use are a combination of minimization, Leray-Schauder degree, Morse Theory and Reduction method a la Castro-Lazer.

This paper provides relevant indicators and measurements useful for public policies seeking the expansion of equitable human development opportunities for Egyptian children and youth. To measure equitable access to opportunities, the authors use the Human Opportunity Index to examine the evolution of 16 basic opportunity indicators grouped in four sectors: education, basic housing services, early childhood development, and nutrition and hunger. The main findings show that during the last decade most opportunities for children and youth improved unambiguously,for the first two sectors, but were stagnant for nutrition and early childhood development opportunities. Although the urban-rural and interregional gaps were partially reduced, there are still substantial opportunity gaps between children in favorable and unfavorable circumstances. Parents'education, income per capita, urban-rural location, number of siblings, and regional location, are the five most important factors affecting equality of opportunity, although their impact varies across indicators.