Giving vulnerable children a precautionary course of an antibiotic more than halves their chances of catching deadly drug ...

Two studies published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine show that 6 months of preventive treatment with ...

Worldwide, approximately 2 million children younger than 15 years of age are infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with MDR tuberculosis developing in approximately ...

For 2007, the WHO estimated 511,000 cases of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB, representing approximately 5% of all TB cases worldwide. Extensively drug-resistant (XDR-TB) strains have been detected ...

tuberculosis infection. The trial population comprised household contacts of persons with bacteriologically confirmed rifampicin-resistant or multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis in Vietnam.

tuberculosis infection and disease in children following exposure to adults with multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB). Methods: Cross-sectional study; all children aged < 5 years ...

Bespite progress made, Nigeria faced a 60 percent funding gap in its tuberculosis (TB) response in 2023, posing significant ...

Despite being a preventable and curable disease, tuberculosis remains a significant public health challenge in Nigeria.