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Shorter duration, fully oral treatment regimens for tuberculosis (TB) are now recommended for most adults and children. Updated joint guidelines from the American Thoracic Society, the CDC, European ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Currently, WHO recommends TB screening in children only under certain conditions. A systematic review identified ...

As young children have an increased risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease during the first year after infection, childhood TB serves as an indicator of ongoing transmission within a community.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than half a million children who fall ill with tuberculosis each year are at risk of dying because of a lack of child-friendly treatments, experts said.

Taking a common antibiotic could more than half the risk of children becoming sick with multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to findings presented this week at a conference on lung ...

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Tuberculosis testing for hundreds of children in Omaha began Saturday, after a large group of infants, toddlers and children was potentially exposed to infection through a drop-in day-care program.

HIV and tuberculosis (TB) treatment programs have always relied on clinical trials to understand whether treatment ...

The sneaky growth of TB and the long times for culture-confirmation make containment a very important part of this too - I do hope and assume all tested/at risk have been advised to mask up and avoid ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In children exposed to tuberculosis, chest radiography helped in detecting asymptomatic coprevalent TB and ...

We searched for evidence from studies known as 'clinical trials' that compared rapid TB tests with traditional methods of testing for TB, like smear microscopy and culture. We summarised the findings ...