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 ...

Children with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) undergo months of life-saving treatment including many doses of foul-tasting medications, which caregivers often struggle to prepare and ...

The WHO algorithms are guided scoring systems that allow physicians to put a child on TB treatment if their symptoms are strongly indicative of TB, even if laboratory tests are unavailable or test ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Cases of tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest infectious disease, are up nearly 10 per cent year-over-year among children in Europe and Central Asia, according to a new report from international ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

Cases of tuberculosis are rising in the UK and US, and experts are urging that a holistic approach to treatment is the best ...

The government is releasing thousands of illegal immigrant children with latent tuberculosis infections into American communities without assurances of treatment. Nearly 2,500 children with latent ...

Graeme Hoddinott is a fellow of the African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence (ARISE) programme. His ARISE research is focused on optimising care for adolescents with tuberculosis. The ...