New findings also indicate that children who live in settings with a high burden of TB have a consistently high annual risk of developing TB infection throughout childhood. An estimated 1.2 million ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An updated version of the Xpert Mycobacterium tuberculosis and rifampin assay ...

(HealthDay News) — The incidence of pediatric tuberculosis is higher than the number of infections in 22 high-burden countries, according to a study published online July 9 in The Lancet Global Health ...

To end childhood TB, the global health community must close the pediatric TB case detection gap. Only by doing so can children with TB receive the critical and timely treatment needed to avoid ...

Special message from Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of WHO's Global TB Programme on the occasion of World Children's Day and World Antimicrobial Awareness Week World Children's Day marks the day, over ...

A new study shows that young children diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis are at an increased risk of subsequent wheezing, poor lung function, and reduced height and weight later in their childhood.

Specialists at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center have successfully treated a case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a young child, now 5. Their report on the challenging case, published ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Rayment and colleagues identified 77 first-generation and second-generation Canadian patients with ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- New interim data from the IMPAACT 2034 study presented today as a late-breaking oral abstract at the 2025 Union World Conference on Lung Health ...