Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, despite being largely curable and preventable. In 2019 an estimated 2.9 million of the 10 million people who fell ill with TB were not diagnosed or reported to the World Health Organization. The Political Declaration adopted by...
The political declaration at the first United Nations (UN) high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) held
on 26 September 2018 included commitments by Member States to four new global targets.3
One of
these targets is to diagnose and treat 40 million people with TB in the 5-year period 2018–2022. The
ap...
About one fourth of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the tuberculosis (TB) bacterium, and about 5–10% of those infected develop active TB disease in their lifetime. The risk for active TB disease after infection depends on several factors, the most important being the person’...
This guideline covers preventing, identifying and managing latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in children, young people and adults. It aims to improve ways of finding people who have TB in the community and recommends that everyone under 65 with latent TB should be treated. It describes how TB services ...
Infection prevention and control consists of evidence-based measures intended to prevent exposure and reduce the risk of transmission of infectious agents.
The revised guidelines contain recommendations for specific administrative, environmental controls and respiratory protection, following the assessme...
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...
The present guideline update aims to use the best available evidence on the treatment of drug-susceptible TB, as well as on interventions to ensure adequate patient care and support, in order to inform policy decisions made in these technical areas by national TB control programme managers, national poli...
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...
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...
Early detection of tuberculosis (TB) is essential to improve health outcomes for people with TB, and to reduce TB transmission more effectively. Systematic screening in high risk groups is a complement to efforts to improve the patient-initiated pathway to TB diagnosis (that is, diagnosing TB among peopl...
