Tuberculosis in children is increasingly recognised as an important component of the global tuberculosis burden, with an estimated 1 million cases in 2015. Although younger children are vulnerable to severe forms of tuberculosis disease, no age-disaggregated estimates of paediatric tuberculosis mortality exist, and tuberculosis has never been included in official estimates of under-5 child mortality. We aimed to produce a global mortality burden estimate in children using a complementary approach not dependent on vital registration data.

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儿童结核病死亡率的全球负担：一项数学模型研究。

儿童结核病越来越被认为是全球结核病负担的重要组成部分，2015 年估计有 100 万例病例。虽然年幼的儿童易患严重的结核病，但没有按年龄分类的儿童结核病死亡率估计值，而且结核病从未被包括在 5 岁以下儿童死亡率的官方估计中。我们的目标是使用不依赖于生命登记数据的补充方法对儿童的全球死亡率负担进行估计。