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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Children and staff at a Manchester child care facility were exposed to an individual with tuberculosis over a five-month period, according to the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, about 10.6 million people worldwide contracted tuberculosis, including 1.3 million children. The diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults is usually made from sputum (sputum) in the ...

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

The 2022 rebound in tuberculosis cases includes a 26 percent increase in diagnoses in children 4 or younger, which is concerning, CDC officials say.