Public Health Action PHA 2017; 7(2): 110–115
Lessons from the STEP-TB Project.
Accessed November 2017.
A survival guide for clinicans.
3rd edition.
TB treatment for children is fundamentally the same as for adults, with a combination of TB drugs needing to be taken for a number of months. TB treatment for children consists of an intensive phase followed by a continuation phase. The purpose of the intensive phase is to rapidly eliminate the majo...rity of the TB bacteria, and this phase uses a greater number of TB drugs than the continuation phase whose aim is to eradicate any remaining dormant bacteria.
Accessed Nov. 07. 2017
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