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Ongoing challenges to understanding multidrug- and rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis in children versus adults
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- European Respiratory Society, 2020.
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Abstract
- Previous analyses suggest that children with tuberculosis (TB) are no more or no less likely to have multidrug (MDR)- or rifampicin-resistant (RR)-TB than adults. However, the availability of new data, particularly for high MDR/RR-TB burden countries, suggest updates of country-specific estimates are warranted.We used data from population-representative surveys and surveillance collected between 2000 and 2018 to compare the odds ratio of MDR/RR-TB among children (aged
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09031936
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.core.ac.uk....65fbc2ce04fb571682b3678da873cd3d