Tuberculosis preventive treatment should be considered for all household contacts of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in India

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently changed its guidance for tuberculosis (TB) preventive treatment (TPT) recommending TPT for all pulmonary TB (PTB) exposed household contacts (HHC) to prevent incident TB disease (iTBD), regardless of TB infection (TBI) status. However, this recommendation...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Paradkar, Mandar, Padmapriyadarsini, Chandrasekaran, Jain, Divyashri, Shivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra, Thiruvengadam, Kannan, Gupte, Akshay N., Thomas, Beena, Kinikar, Aarti, Sekar, Krithika, Bharadwaj, Renu, Dolla, Chandra Kumar, Gaikwad, Sanjay, Elilarasi, S., Lokhande, Rahul, Reddy, Devarajulu, Murali, Lakshmi, Kulkarni, Vandana, Pradhan, Neeta, Hanna, Luke Elizabeth, Pattabiraman, Sathyamurthi, Kohli, Rewa, S., Rani, Suryavanshi, Nishi, B. M., Shrinivasa, Cox, Samyra R., Selvaraju, Sriram, Gupte, Nikhil, Mave, Vidya, Gupta, Amita, Bollinger, Robert C.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7390377/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32726367
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236743
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