| Autor: |
Dillon T. Wademan, Graeme Hoddinott, Susan E. Purchase, James A. Seddon, Anneke C. Hesseling, Anthony J. Garcia-Prats, Ria Reis, Lindsey J. Reynolds |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body (AISSR, FMG) |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
PLoS ONE, 17(7):e0268560. Public Library of Science |
| ISSN: |
1932-6203 |
| Popis: |
Drug-resistant (DR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) are increasingly recognised as a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control efforts. Identifying people with DR-TB exposure/ infection and providing TB preventive therapy (TPT) is a public health priority. TB guidelines advise the evaluation of household contacts of newly diagnosed TB cases, with the provision of TPT to vulnerable populations, including young children (M. tb strains with resistance to rifampicin and isoniazid (multidrug-resistant TB; MDR-TB). Prior to opening a phase 3 prevention trial in children |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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