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Leveraging nutritional rehabilitation and tuberculosis programmes to tackle tuberculosis and severe acute malnutrition in children

Vonasek BJ, Marcy O, Armour J, Casenghi M, Cazes C,  et al.
2025-03-23 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
2025-03-23 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health

Each day more than 500 children younger than 15 years die from tuberculosis. Considerable progress has been...

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Research

Characteristics of children and adolescents with multidrug-resistant and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis and their association with treatment outcomes: a systematic review and individual participant data meta-analysis

Garcia-Prats AJ, Garcia-Cremades M, Cox V, Kredo T, Dunbar R,  et al.
2025-02-01 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
2025-02-01 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health

BACKGROUND

There are few data on the treatment of children and adolescents with multidrug-resistant (MDR) or rifampicin-resistant (RR) tuberculosis, especially ...

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Research

Evaluation of a short training course of chest X-ray interpretation for the diagnosis of paediatric TB

Melingui BF, Leroy-Terquem E, Palmer M, Taguebue JV, Wachinou AP,  et al.
2024-02-01 • IJTLD OPEN
2024-02-01 • IJTLD OPEN
BACKGROUND
Chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation is challenging for the diagnosis of paediatric TB. We assessed the performance of a three half-day CXR training module for healthcare work...
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Research

Standards for clinical trials for treating TB

du Cros PAK, Greig J, Cross GB, Cousins C, Berry C,  et al.
2023-12-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2023-12-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND
The value, speed of completion and robustness of the evidence generated by TB treatment trials could be improved by implementing standards for best practice.

METH...
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Clinical standards for drug-susceptible TB in children and adolescents

Chiang SS, Graham SM, Schaaf HS, Marais BJ, Sant’Anna CC,  et al.
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...
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Development of treatment-decision algorithms for children evaluated for pulmonary tuberculosis: an individual participant data meta-analysis

Gunasekera KS, Marcy O, Muñoz J, Lopez-Varela E, Sekadde MP,  et al.
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...
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Commentary

Caring for adolescents and young adults with tuberculosis or at risk of tuberculosis: Consensus statement from an international expert panel

Chiang SS, Waterous PM, Atieno VF, Bernays S, Bondarenko Y,  et al.
2023-03-01 • Journal of Adolescent Health
2023-03-01 • Journal of Adolescent Health
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Effect of systematic tuberculosis detection on mortality in young children with severe pneumonia in countries with high incidence of tuberculosis: a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial

Marcy O, Wobudeya E, Font H, Vessière A, Chabala C,  et al.
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...
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Research

Peripheral Neuropathy in a Diabetic Child Treated with Linezolid for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Swaminathan A, du Cros PAK, Seddon JA, Mirgayosieva S, Asladdin R,  et al.
2017-06-12 • BMC Infectious Diseases
2017-06-12 • BMC Infectious Diseases
Extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug resistant (MDR)-TB with additional resistance to injectable agents or fluoroquinolones are challenging to treat due to la...
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Commentary

Access to paediatric formulations for the treatment of childhood tuberculosis

Nash M, Perrin C, Seddon JA, Furin J, Hauser J,  et al.
2020-12-01 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
2020-12-01 • Lancet Child and Adolescent Health
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Commentary

Clinical perspectives on treatment of rifampicin-resistant/multidrug-resistant TB

Cox V, McKenna L, Acquah R, Reuter A, Wasserman S,  et al.
2020-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2020-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Rapid diagnostics, newer drugs, repurposed medications, and shorter regimens have radically altered the landscape for treating rifampicin-resistant TB (RR-TB) and multidrug-resistant TB ...
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The devil we know: is the use of injectable agents for the treatment of MDR-TB justified?

Reuter A, Tisile P, von Delft D, Cox HS, Cox V,  et al.
2017-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2017-11-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
For decades, second-line injectable agents (IAs) have been the cornerstone of treatment for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Although evidence on the efficacy of IAs is limited...
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Commentary

The STREAM trial: missed opportunities and lessons for future clinical trials

Loveday M, Reuter A, Furin J, Seddon JA, Cox HS
2019-03-22 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2019-03-22 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
Final results of the STREAM trial were presented at the 2018, 49th Union World Conference on Lung Health, held in The Hague, The Netherlands. STREAM is a randomised controlled trial comp...
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Letter

Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Child Successfully Treated with 9-Month Drug Regimen

Achar J, Berry C, Herboczek K, Parpieva N, Tillashaykhov M,  et al.
2015-09-09 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
2015-09-09 • Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Research

Challenges and solutions to implementing drug-resistant tuberculosis programmes for children in Central Asia

du Cros PAK, Swaminathan A, Bobokhojaev O, Sharifovna ZD, Martin C,  et al.
2015-06-21 • Public Health Action
2015-06-21 • Public Health Action
Guidelines for children with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) tend to focus on individual patient care; there is little guidance for national tuberculosis programmes (NTPs) on how to...
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Review

New and repurposed drugs for pediatric multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Practice-based recommendations

Harausz EP, Garcia-Prats AJ, Seddon JA, Schaaf HS, Hesseling AC,  et al.
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...
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Research

Treatment outcomes for children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Ettehad D, Schaaf HS, Seddon JA, Cooke GS, Ford NP
2012-02-27 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
2012-02-27 • Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Research

Treatment and outcomes in children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

Harausz EP, Garcia-Prats AJ, Law S, Schaaf HS, Kredo T,  et al.
2018-07-11 • PLOS Medicine
2018-07-11 • PLOS Medicine
An estimated 32,000 children develop multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB; Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to isoniazid and rifampin) each year. Little is known about the optima...
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Research

Treating children for drug-resistant tuberculosis in Tajikistan with Group 5 medications

Swaminathan A, du Cros PAK, Seddon JA, Quinnell S, Bobokhojaev O,  et al.
2016-04-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
2016-04-01 • International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
BACKGROUND
Management of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and pre-XDR-TB is challenging, as effective drugs are lacking. Group 5 anti-tuberculosis drugs have an uncle...
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Letter

Prevention of Hearing Loss in Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Cox HS, Reuter A, Furin J, Seddon JA
2017-09-02 • Lancet
2017-09-02 • Lancet