Submitted by Bobby Ramakant (bobby) about 23 hours ago
Ensuring the involvement of children in the evaluation of TB treatment is critical as we move forward in developing effective responses to active and drug-susceptible TB, argues a new essay in this week's PLoS Medicine.
William Burman (from the Denver Public Health and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA) and colleagues say that children are an often ignored but important part of TB control efforts. In high-burden settings, children make up as much as 20% of new cases of active TB. Young children are also at high risk of having severe, rapidly-progressive forms of tuberculosis. Read more...
Ensuring the involvement of children in the evaluation of TB treatment is critical as we move forward in developing effective responses to active and drug-susceptible TB, argues a new essay in this week's PLoS Medicine.William Burman (from the Denver Public Health and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA) and colleagues say that children are an often ignored but important part of TB control efforts. In high-burden settings, children make up as much as 20% of new cases of active TB. Young children are also at high risk of having severe, rapidly-progressive forms of tuberculosis.
Keywords: children clinical trials diagnostics PLoS research TB tuberculosis
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Nora O. Gamolo wrote an in-depth article documenting social dimensions of TB control in Philippines' only TB hospital - Quezon Institute.
