Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Low
Children aged ≥ 5 years, adolescents and adults who are household contacts of people with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB who are found not to have TB disease on an appropriate clinical evaluation or according to national guidelines may be given TB preventive treatment.
Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Guidelines on the management of latent tuberculosis infection
Latent tuberculosis infection: updated and consolidated guidelines for programmatic management
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: tuberculosis preventive treatment: Module 1: prevention
WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: module 5: management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents.