To end childhood TB, the global health community must close the pediatric TB case detection gap. Only by doing so can children with TB receive the critical and timely treatment needed to avoid ...

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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 ...

The notification rate of tuberculosis (TB) went up from 2 to 2.5 per 100,000 population. But overall, numbers of notified paediatric cases remain relatively low across the region. As young children ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Previous tuberculosis in Gambian children was significantly associated with impaired lung function and ...

Germantown, Maryland, and Venlo, the Netherlands, June 27, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it welcomes new guidelines in the United ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) now recommends shortened treatment for children with mild tuberculosis (TB), as well as two oral TB treatments (bedaquiline and delamanid) for use in children of ...

Because it can be difficult to detect tuberculosis in young children, the disease may be dangerously advanced by the time it's diagnosed. A new blood test, however, is claimed to detect the presence ...

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 ...

Children are more likely than adults to develop active TB following exposure to M. tuberculosis (Mtb). Children are also much more likely than adults to develop severe disease, including ...

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 ...