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2023-10-30 • Lancet Global Health
2023-10-30 • Lancet Global Health
BACKGROUND
Globally, the uptake of tuberculosis-preventive treatment (TPT) among children with household tuberculosis contact remains low, partly due to the necessity of bringing chi...
Globally, the uptake of tuberculosis-preventive treatment (TPT) among children with household tuberculosis contact remains low, partly due to the necessity of bringing chi...
Journal Article
|Research
2023-08-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2023-08-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND
These clinical standards aim to provide guidance for diagnosis, treatment, and management of drug-susceptible TB in children and adolescents.
METHODS
Fifty-tw...
These clinical standards aim to provide guidance for diagnosis, treatment, and management of drug-susceptible TB in children and adolescents.
METHODS
Fifty-tw...
Journal Article
|Research
2023-03-13 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
2023-03-13 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
BACKGROUND
Many children with pulmonary tuberculosis remain undiagnosed and untreated with related high morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in childhood tuberculosis algorithm d...
Many children with pulmonary tuberculosis remain undiagnosed and untreated with related high morbidity and mortality. Recent advances in childhood tuberculosis algorithm d...
Journal Article
|Research
2023-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2023-03-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
BACKGROUND
Tuberculosis diagnosis might be delayed or missed in children with severe pneumonia because this diagnosis is usually only considered in cases of prolonged symptoms or ant...
Tuberculosis diagnosis might be delayed or missed in children with severe pneumonia because this diagnosis is usually only considered in cases of prolonged symptoms or ant...
Journal Article
|Review
2016-11-17 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
2016-11-17 • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
It is estimated that 33,000 children develop multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) each year. In spite of these numbers, children and adolescents have limited access to the new and r...
Journal Article
|Research
2022-03-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2022-03-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND
Tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy (TPT) decreases the risk of developing TB disease and its associated morbidity and mortality. The aim of these clinical standards is t...
Tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy (TPT) decreases the risk of developing TB disease and its associated morbidity and mortality. The aim of these clinical standards is t...
Conference Material
|Poster
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-09 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
Journal Article
|Commentary
2012-05-15 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
2012-05-15 • Journal of Infectious Diseases
There is a critical need for improved diagnosis of tuberculosis in children, particularly in young children with intrathoracic disease as this represents the most common type of tubercul...
Journal Article
|Research
2014-03-21 • Public Health Action
2014-03-21 • Public Health Action
SETTING
P J Twomey Hospital, National Tuberculosis Programme, Fiji.
OBJECTIVES
To review the trend in numbers of tuberculosis (TB) cases registered each year from 1950 t...
P J Twomey Hospital, National Tuberculosis Programme, Fiji.
OBJECTIVES
To review the trend in numbers of tuberculosis (TB) cases registered each year from 1950 t...
Journal Article
|Research
2003-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2003-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
SETTING: Thyolo district, rural Malawi. OBJECTIVES: To compare passive with active case finding among household contacts of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients for 1) TB ...
Journal Article
|Research
2007-10-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2007-10-01 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) is a widely available antibiotic that substantially reduces HIV-related morbidity and mortality in both adults and children. Prophylaxis wi...