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Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Contacts of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis.
(American Thoracic Society, 2020)
RATIONALE: The World Health Organization recommends the use of isoniazid alone or in combination with rifapentine to treat latent tuberculosis infection. The recent rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis has complicated the ...
Pragmatic tuberculosis prevention policies for primary care in low- and middle-income countries
(European Respiratory Society, 2018)
Despite being a curable and preventable disease, tuberculosis is the leading cause of death from infection worldwide and is one of the top 10 causes of death from any cause, including in children. Incidence is at best ...
Preventive therapy for HIV-associated tuberculosis
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019)
Prediction and prevention of tuberculosis in contacts - Authors' reply
(Elsevier, 2017)
We thank Sandra Arend and Jonathan Uzorka for their interest in our study. They argue that because our risk score predicts tuberculosis independently of the contact tuberculin skin test (TST) results and index case smear ...
Socioeconomic support to improve initiation of tuberculosis preventive therapy and increase tuberculosis treatment success in Peru: a household-randomised, controlled evaluation
(Elsevier, 2017)
Background: For the first time in the modern era of tuberculosis control, the WHO's End TB strategy specifically integrates socioeconomic support for people affected by tuberculosis with existing biomedical interventions. ...
Epidemiological aspects, clinical manifestations, and prevention of pediatric tuberculosis from the perspective of the End TB Strategy
(Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia, 2018)
Resistência do Mycobacterium tuberculosis a múltiplos fármacos
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2017-12-27)
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease, its etiologic agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is an aerobic bacillus that mainly affects the lungs. The main port of entry into the body is through the airways. Tuberculosis ...