Clinical Guidelines "Tuberculosis among children"
https://doi.org/10.34215/1609-1175-2021-1-5-9
Abstract
The review of the recommendations "Tuberculosis among children" according to general sections with the point on the methods of diagnosing and increasingly on five chemotherapy regimens which are formed depending on mycobacteria's drug sensitivity. Special attention is paid to treatment regimens of the drug-resistant tuberculosis and chemotherapy schemes including new anti-tuberculosis drugs - Bedaquiline and Linezolid in combination with fluoroquinolone. The criteria of the prescription of short chemotherapy regimens that weren't applied previously to cure tuberculosis with multi-drug resistance of the pathogen were presented. Clinical guidelines were developed and introduced into practice to help medical practitioners and provide an appropriate anti-tuberculosis medical treatment in particular clinical cases.
About the Author
N. I. KlevnoRussian Federation
Nadezhda I. Klevno, MD, PhD, leading researcher of the Department of Child and Adolescent Tuber-culosis.
4/2 Dostoevskogo St., Moscow, 127473
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Review
For citations:
Klevno N.I. Clinical Guidelines "Tuberculosis among children". Pacific Medical Journal. 2021;(1):5-9. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.34215/1609-1175-2021-1-5-9