PedTB Bangladesh Database: Pediatric TB Screening Cohort (2018–2021)

2018–2021 data from a large, programmatic cohort of children who underwent symptom-based screening for pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis in Bangladesh. The 17.0 MB dataset was authored by Giordano Sosa Soto and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling pediatric tuberculosis risk based on symptom profiles mentioned in the description
• Evaluating screening program effectiveness for pulmonary and extrapulmonary TB in a cohort setting
• Studying the epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis in Bangladesh between 2018 and 2021

Strengths

• Data covers a four-year time range from 2018 to 2021
• Dataset size is 17.0 MB, indicating a substantial volume of records
• License is permissive CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Programmatic cohort collection via symptom-based screening

Time Range

2018–2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 21:50:06; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bangladesh