Challenges to delivery of isoniazid preventive therapy in a cohort of children exposed to tuberculosis in Timor-Leste

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 730-736

  Hall, Charlotte ^a,b   Sukijthamapan, P ^a   dos Santos, R ^a   Nourse, C ^a,c,d   Murphy, D ^a   Gibbons, M ^a,e   Francis, J R ^a,f,g  

^a Bairo Pite Clinic   (Timor-Leste)

^b HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c LADY CILENTO CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e Tobwabba Aboriginal Medical Service   (Australia)

^f ROYAL DARWIN HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^g FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemoprevention; Child; Cohort studies; Contact tracing; East Timor; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE CONTROL; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; ISONIAZID PREVENTIVE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SPUTUM SMEAR; TIMOR-LESTE; TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; INDONESIA; INFANT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS; SUNDA ISLES; TIMOR; TIMOR-LESTE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTACT TRACING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDONESIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISONIAZID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 84928760199     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12479     Document Type: Article

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