If isolated isoniazid resistance is documented, discontinue isoniazid and continue treatment with rifampin, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol for 6 months. Therapy must be extended if the patient has cavitary disease and remains culture-positive after 2 months of treatment. Directly observed therapy (DOT) ...
TB is a treatable and preventable disease. Adequate screening and prophylactic treatment can prevent active TB disease. The Preventive Health Clinic is a special center that focuses on the treatment of TB infection and disease and is the only Tuberculosis clinic in the Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockdal...
The aims of TB drug treatment are to rapidly reduce bacillary load to achieve clinical improvement, to remove persistor organisms to prevent relapse, and to avoid drug resistance. Standard first-line treatment for drug sensitive PTB and EPTB disease in both HIV-positive and -negative adults ...
An assessment of factors contributing to treatment adherence and knowledge of TB transmission among patients on TB treatment p pBackground/p pThe treatment guidelines for tuberculosis treatment under Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course (DOTS) have been a common strategy for......
prevention of TB is always better than a cure. Although there is no sure-fire way to completely prevent the spread of TB at this point in time, there are a number of measures to reduce the spread of the illness. Some of these measures include the BCG vaccine, immediate treatment of late...
Effectiveness, cost, and safety of four regimens recommended by WHO for RR/MDR-TB treatment: a cohort study in Eastern China Pengcheng Gu, Peng Lu, Hui Ding, Qiao Liu, Xiaoyan Ding, Yongfa Chen, Limei Zhu. Annals...
When it comes to TB treatment, "there's an urgent need for shorter-duration, more potent, and safer anti-TB agents that are not only effective against drug-susceptible TB but also drug-resistant TB," Takuva told attendees. Quabodepistat is a novel decaprenyl-phosphoryl-β-D-ribose-2'-...
Abstract Despite well-established treatment regimens, tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health burden; it disproportionately affects poor and marginalized populations who may not have access to social support, including migrants, homeless people and those dependent on drugs or alcohol. There is a clear...
TB treatment simpler? Author: Shobha Shukla (CNS) Taking the encouraging results of its N-005 study one step forward, TB Alliance has initiated SimpliciTB a pivotal clinical study to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of a novel and potentially shorter 4 drug regimen for patients ...
Treatment of latent tuberculosis is set to transform after a pair of studies from the Research-Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) revealed that a shorter treatment was safer and more effective in children and adults compared to th