Feasibility of the concept for respiratory tuberculosis chemotherapy in children and adolescents

The article presents the review of publications devoted to personalized tuberculosis chemotherapy in children and adolescents with consideration of the specific course of the disease with the relevance to age. It is possible to reduce the duration of chemotherapy and the number of anti-tuberculosis...

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Main Authors: E. S. Ovsyankina, M. F. Gubkina, L. V. Panova
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: New Terra Publishing House 2019-12-01
Series:Туберкулез и болезни лёгких
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Online Access:https://www.tibl-journal.com/jour/article/view/1353
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Summary:The article presents the review of publications devoted to personalized tuberculosis chemotherapy in children and adolescents with consideration of the specific course of the disease with the relevance to age. It is possible to reduce the duration of chemotherapy and the number of anti-tuberculosis drugs within the regimen. At the same time, the major criteria include results of microbiological tests of diagnostic specimens of the patient’s and/or index case and drug susceptibility tests in full both by express and traditional microbiological methods, microbiological and radiological monitoring, primarily in the intensive phase of chemotherapy. Generally, this personalized approach can assure high treatment efficacy.
ISSN:2075-1230
2542-1506