Improving access to tuberculosis preventive therapy and treatment for children.
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Summary
With drug-resistant disease there is currently no guidance on the use of preventive therapy and treatment is usually restricted to cases with bacteriologically confirmed disease, which excludes most young children from care, even if their likely source case has documented drug- resistant TB.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2017-03-01
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 41
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2567401233
- Semantic Scholar
- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:205278421
Keywords
Medicine, Tuberculosis, Disease, Pediatrics, Intensive care medicine
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- X-pert MTB/RIF® Diagnosis of Twin Infants with Tuberculosis in Da Nang, Viet Nam
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- Preventing tuberculosis in household contacts crucial to protect children and contain epidemic spread.
- Newer Drugs for Tuberculosis Prevention and Treatment in Children
- Outcomes of empiric treatment for pediatric tuberculosis, Kampala, Uganda, 2010–2015
- Tuberculosis and HIV—An Update on the “Cursed Duet” in Children
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- Poor adherence to TB diagnosis guidelines among under-five children with severe acute malnutrition in central India: A missed window of opportunity?
- Tuberculosis identification on students of Pesantren in Probolinggo Regency
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