Practical and psychosocial challenges faced by caregivers influence the acceptability of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis preventive therapy for young children

Dillon T Wademan, Graeme Hoddinott, Susan E Purchase, James A Seddon, Anneke C Hesseling, Anthony J Garcia-Prats, Ria Reis and Lindsey J Reynolds

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 7, 1-18

Abstract: Drug-resistant (DR) strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) are increasingly recognised as a threat to global tuberculosis (TB) control efforts. Identifying people with DR-TB exposure/ infection and providing TB preventive therapy (TPT) is a public health priority. TB guidelines advise the evaluation of household contacts of newly diagnosed TB cases, with the provision of TPT to vulnerable populations, including young children (

Date: 2022
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