Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An updated version of the Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampin assay ...

As young children have an increased risk of developing tuberculosis (TB) disease during the first year after infection, childhood TB serves as an indicator of ongoing transmission within a community.

A new study shows that young children diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis are at an increased risk of subsequent wheezing, poor lung function, and reduced height and weight later in their childhood.

(HealthDay News) — The incidence of pediatric tuberculosis is higher than the number of infections in 22 high-burden countries, according to a study published online July 9 in The Lancet Global Health ...

New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rayment and colleagues identified 77 first-generation and second-generation Canadian patients with ...

Specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have successfully treated a case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a young child, now 5. Their report on the challenging case, published ...

To end childhood TB, the global health community must close the pediatric TB case detection gap. Only by doing so can children with TB receive the critical and timely treatment needed to avoid ...

(CNN) — A pediatric healthcare worker in Michigan was ill with tuberculosis and didn’t know it while working in several locations over nine months, the state’s health department said. The worker was ...

A new study shows that young children diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis are at an increased risk of subsequent wheezing, poor lung function, and reduced height and weight later in their childhood.