Tuberculosis (TB) remains a large-scale public health problem. Key global priorities for TB care and control include improving case-detection and detecting patients earlier, particularly patients with smear-negative TB disease. This document provides a pragmatic summary of the evidence and recommendation...
Ren, CL;
Esther CR, Jr;
Debley, JS;
Sockrider, M;
Yilmaz, O;
Amin, N;
Bazzy-Asaad, A;
Davis, SD;
Durand, M;
Ewig, JM;
Yuksel, H;
Lombardi, E;
Noah, TL;
Radford, P;
Ranganathan, S;
Teper, A;
Weinberger, M;
Brozek, J;
Wilson, KC.
"BACKGROUND:
Infantile wheezing is a common problem, but there are no guidelines for the evaluation of infants with recurrent or persistent wheezing that is not relieved or prevented by standard therapies.
METHODS:
An American Thoracic Society-sanctioned guideline development committee selected clinical...
Nahid, P;
Dorman, SE;
Alipanah, N;
Barry, PM;
Brozek, JL;
Cattamanchi, A;
Chaisson, LH;
Chaisson, RE;
Daley, CL;
Grzemska, M;
Higashi, JM;
Ho, CS;
Ho, CS;
Hopewell, PC;
Keshavjee, SA;
Lienhardt, C;
Menzies, R;
Merrifield, C;
Narita, M;
O'Brien, R;
Peloquin, CA;
Raftery, A;
Saukkonen, J;
Schaaf, HS;
Sotgiu, G;
Starke, JR;
Migliori, GB;
Vernon, A.
The American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Infectious Diseases Society of America jointly sponsored the development of this guideline for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, which is also endorsed by the European Respiratory Society and the US National Tube...
Lewinsohn, DM;
Leonard, MK;
LoBue, PA;
Cohn, DL;
Daley, CL;
Desmond, E;
Keane, J;
Lewinsohn, DA;
Loeffler, AM;
Mazurek, GH;
O'Brien, RJ;
Pai, M;
Richeldi, L;
Salfinger, M;
Shinnick, TM;
Sterling, TR;
Warshauer, DM;
Woods, GL.
BACKGROUND: Individuals infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) may develop symptoms and signs of disease (tuberculosis disease) or may have no clinical evidence of disease (latent tuberculosis infection [LTBI]). Tuberculosis disease is a leading cause of infectious disease morbidity and mortality...
