Estudo randomizado | Em crianças com tuberculose não grave e suscetível a medicamentos, o tratamento por 4 meses é não inferior ao tratamento por 6 meses.

Shorter Treatment for Nonsevere Tuberculosis in African and Indian Children – New England Journal of Medicine

Comunicado de imprensa: Treatment length reduced for children with tuberculosis – University College London

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Completing 6 months of treatment for tuberculosis in children is a challenge. In this open-label trial involving 1204 children in sub-Saharan Africa and India, 4 months of antituberculosis therapy was noninferior to 6 months of therapy. https://t.co/zkD4URWMru pic.twitter.com/LFR6ZzTKgs

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