Waiting is no longer an option for household contacts of people with drug-resistant tuberculosis
Lancet Infect Dis
.
2024 Sep;24(9):947-949.
doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00233-0.
Authors
Jean Pannikottu
1
,
Anja Reuter
2
,
Elize Pietersen
3
,
Goodman Makhanda
4
,
Johnny Daniels
2
,
Busisiwe Beko
2
,
Ivy Apolisi
2
,
Jennifer Furin
5
Affiliations
1
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
2
The Sentinel Project on Pediatric Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Cape Town, South Africa.
3
Free of TB, Cape Town, South Africa.
4
TB Proof, Cape Town, South Africa.
5
Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: jennifer_furin@hms.harvard.edu.
PMID:
39179340
DOI:
10.1016/S1473-3099(24)00233-0
No abstract available
MeSH terms
Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
Contact Tracing*
Family Characteristics*
Humans
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant* / drug therapy
Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant* / epidemiology
Substances
Antitubercular Agents