Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An updated version of the Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampin assay ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

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 ...

A new study shows that young children diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis are at an increased risk of subsequent wheezing, poor lung function, and reduced height and weight later in their childhood.

Specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have successfully treated a case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a young child, now 5. Their report on the challenging case, published ...

Special message from Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of WHO's Global TB Programme on the occasion of World Children's Day and World Antimicrobial Awareness Week World Children's Day marks the day, over ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rayment and colleagues identified 77 first-generation and second-generation Canadian patients with ...

Children under 15 account for 4.3% of all new and relapsed tuberculosis (TB) cases in the WHO European Region, which includes Europe and Central Asia, compared with 3.9% in 2022, a 10% increase. The ...

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 ...

HIV and tuberculosis (TB) treatment programs have always relied on clinical trials to understand whether treatment ...