Treatment failure in tuberculosis
| Autor: | Jayachandran R Panickar, Wren Hoskyns |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine medicine.medical_specialty Pediatrics Tuberculosis Adolescent Disease Pharmacotherapy Isoniazid medicine Humans Treatment Failure Child Tuberculosis Pulmonary medicine.diagnostic_test Latent tuberculosis Tuberculin Test business.industry medicine.disease Health Surveys Mass Chest X-Ray Confidence interval Surgery BCG Vaccine Drug Therapy Combination Female Rifampin Chest radiograph business Rifampicin Follow-Up Studies medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | European Respiratory Journal. 29:561-564 |
| ISSN: | 1399-3003 0903-1936 |
| DOI: | 10.1183/09031936.00092406 |
| Popis: | Treatment of latent tuberculosis (TB) infection with 3 months of rifampicin/isoniazid is a major part of preventive TB programmes. The effectiveness of treatment of latent TB infection can only be assessed by rates of subsequent breakdown and there are few outcome data for this combination of rifampicin/isoniazid. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to estimate the failure rate following treatment for the latent TB infection. A questionnaire survey was carried out in all parents of children aged |
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