Thakur, JitendraRai, Rupa RajbhandariSingh, Rupa RajbhandariGhosh, SohiniGyawali, Pratyush2026-01-152026-01-152018https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14572/4268Jitendra Thakur Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal Basant Rai Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal Rupa Rajbhandari Singh Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal Sohini Ghosh Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, BPKIHS, Dharan, Nepal Pratyush Gyawali Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, BPKIHS, Dharan, NepalAbstract: Tuberculosis in early infancy was not so common earlier also and has become rare these days. Since the disease is occasionally encountered, pediatricians should suspect tuberculosis in infants not responding to standard therapy. Here we report a case of three months old female who had presented with complaints of fever for two months, cough for one and half months and difficulty breathing for seven days and was being treated in line of bacterial pneumonia without improvement. She was found to be mycobacterium positive and was treated with anti-tubercular therapy leading to improvement and discharge. So, though rare, it is important to consider tuberculosis even in early infancy not responding to standard antibiotic therapy.en-USTuberculosisinfantdiagnosisArticle