Global efforts to protect children against diseases including measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An estimated 1.2 million children develop tuberculosis disease (TB) and 200,000 kids die from TB worldwide each year, but the risk of developing TB infection and disease throughout childhood ...

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 ...

In 2023, 1,689 children and young adolescents below the age of 15 years were diagnosed with tuberculosis in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries. Cristea et al. analysed ...

Table 1. Drugs Used in the Treatment of Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Children 2,14 Group Drugs Dosage Adverse Effects; Group 1 (oral first-line drugs) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background. Children are highly susceptible to tuberculosis; thus, there is need for safe and effective preventive interventions. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of isoniazid in ...

Children aged 1–4 had the highest pediatric TB cases ... Increase in tuberculosis among children and young adolescents, European Union/European Economic Area, 2015 to 2023 ...