No time to waste: preventing tuberculosis in children

Tuberculosis takes the life of one in five children developing the disease. 1 WHOGlobal tuberculosis report: 2019. World Health Organization, Geneva2019 Google Scholar Data from the pre-chemotherapy era suggest very young children are at highest risk for tuberculosis after exposure, and highly susceptible to the most severe forms of the disease. 2 WHOLatent tuberculosis infection: updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management....