Highest proportion of pediatric TB among children aged 1 to 4 years. Between 2015 and 2023, in total 16,414 pediatric TB cases were notified, with an average of 1,946 cases per year (range: 1,142 ...

More than 500 children need to be tested within the next week, local health officials said, and younger ones will be given preventive drugs. It’s an unusually large tuberculosis exposure of ...

Amid debate on the effectiveness of the tuberculosis vaccine, a new study suggests that the vaccine is protective against TB in children under 5, but adolescents and adults in high-burden ...

Previous tuberculosis in Gambian children was significantly associated with impaired lung function and health-related quality of life, according to a cross-sectional comparative study published in ...

The results were encouraging. Compared to detection in culture, the test identified almost 60 percent of children with tuberculosis, with 90-percent specificity.

How accurate are low-complexity manual nucleic acid amplification tests for detecting pulmonary tuberculosis in children? - There is limited evidence that LC-mNAATs can correctly identify pulmonary ...

CHILDREN who have tuberculosis (TB) can be treated faster over the course of four months, according to new national guidelines adopted by the Department of Health (DOH) based on the recommendation ...

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

Children on higher-dose tuberculosis treatment regimens, as per 2010 World Health Organization guidelines, experience more adverse events than those on lower-dose regimens.