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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Special message from Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of WHO's Global TB Programme on the occasion of World Children's Day and World Antimicrobial Awareness Week World Children's Day marks the day, over ...

(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 ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) now recommends shortened treatment for children with mild tuberculosis (TB), as well as two oral TB treatments (bedaquiline and delamanid) for use in children of ...

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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than half a million children who fall ill with tuberculosis each year are at risk of dying because of a lack of child-friendly treatments, experts said.

Children born in the United States are 6 times more likely to have tuberculosis (TB) if at least 1 parent was born abroad, according to a study published online February 10 in Pediatrics. The finding ...

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.