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.
Boston University School of Public Health Nov 5 2024
Published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, the study is the first birth cohort study to assess TB infection and active TB disease during children's first decade of life in high-burden settings. The new results found that there was a consistently high rate of annual TB infection among children in the study group-;between 4-9 percent-;and that more than 10 percent of children developed TB disease by the time they were 10 years old.
Related StoriesWith TB drugs, TB disease is highly treatable, and the researchers found that preventative treatments were broadly effective for infected children who accessed this care-;but only a small proportion of the cohort did so. Most eligible children with TB infection did not receive preventive treatment, and the majority of those who developed TB disease had not received preventive medicine.
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