Paediatric tuberculosis – new advances to close persistent gaps

• Published in: International journal of infectious diseases Vol. 113; no. Suppl 1; pp. S63 - S67
• Main Authors: Marais, Ben J., Verkuijl, Sabine, Casenghi, Martina, Triasih, Rina, Hesseling, Anneke C., Mandalakas, Anna M., Marcy, Olivier, Seddon, James A., Graham, Stephen M., Amanullah, Farhana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2021; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; case finding; Child; Child, Preschool; childhood; gap; HIV Seropositivity; Human health and pathology; Humans; Infectious diseases; Life Sciences; Overtreatment; Pediatrics; prevention; Santé publique et épidémiologie; tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - diagnosis; Tuberculosis - drug therapy; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; case finding; childhood; prevention; tuberculosis; gap; child; Prevention; Tuberculosis; Child; Childhood; Case finding; Gap

•Children are over-represented among TB deaths; most dying without accessing TB care.•Major gaps persist in TB preventive treatment (TPT) provision and TB case detection.•Reducing the TPT gap requires major upscaling of household contact investigation.•Reducing the TB case detection gap requires acc...