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Meningitis outbreak response in sub-Saharan Africa: WHO guideline

World Health Organization.

For over 100 years, major epidemics of meningococcal disease have occurred every few years within the African meningitis belt, which runs across the continent from Senegal to Ethiopia. The objectives of this review were to revise WHO guidelines on control of epidemic meningitis in subSaharan Africa conce...

Brotes de Enfermedades, Meningitis Bacterianas/prevención & control, Meningitis Bacterianas/tratamiento farmacológico, África del Sur del Sahara/epidemiología, Meningitis Bacterianas/diagnóstico, Meningitis Bacterianas/epidemiología, Vacunas Meningococicas/administración & dosificación, Profilaxis Antibiótica/métodos, Vacunas contra Haemophilus/administración & dosificación, Juego de Reactivos para Diagnóstico, Prevalencia, Incidencia, Trazado de Contacto

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Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children

This Guideline outlines the purpose and the target audience of the second edition of Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children. It discusses the difference between TB in children and adolescents and TB in adults and provides an estimate of the burden of c...