%0 Journal Article %T Late diagnosis of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in a child at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital, Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa: A case report %A Bakani A. Siwele %A Matodzi T. Mariba %A Ndivhuho A. Makhado %J Archive of "African Journal of Laboratory Medicine". %D 2019 %R 10.4102/ajlm.v8i1.783 %X South Africa has one of the top ten tuberculosis burdens in the world, only lagging behind countries with significantly larger populations. Increased awareness of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, specifically spinal tuberculosis, is necessary, because of the HIV epidemic %K spinal tuberculosis %K extrapulmonary tuberculosis %K multidrug-resistant tuberculosis %K laboratory diagnosis %K radiological improvement %U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6676783/