Treatment for children with nonsevere tuberculosis can be safely shortened from 6 to 4 months, according to the results of a study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A shorter treatment for children with non-severe TB allows savings of on average $17 (£12) per child, which can be used to improve the screening coverage and find the missing children with TB." ...

Pulmonology > Tuberculosis Shorter Treatment for Nonsevere TB Succeeds in Kids — Safe, less costly, and with similar efficacy, randomized trial in Africa and India finds ...

The World Health Organization is expected to recommend truncating treatment of children with mild tuberculosis by 2 months — from 6 months to 4 — after a randomized trial found similar ...

To prevent tuberculosis (TB) in children with latent tuberculosis infection (which is not active but can become active), combination treatment with the medications rifapentine and isoniazid was as ...

Early identification and treatment of latent TB infection in children with known exposure are essential to prevent the progression to active disease.” Public Health Interventions.

Tuberculosis in kids treatment. The treatment of this condition in children is the same as the ones in adults. The only difference is that the doses of the medication vary.

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines.

Treatment is even more complicated for children. TB drugs aren't usually designed for kids, says Dr. Christoph Hoehn the acting country director for Doctors Without Borders in Tajikistan.

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The world is struggling to cope with a growing epidemic of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Treatment is even more complicated for children. TB drugs aren't usually designed for kids, says Dr ...

A UCL-led international trial exploring the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children has led to a change in the World Health Organisation's global guidelines for managing the disease.