Bibliographic Info
GuidelineWHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis: tuberculosis preventive treatment: Module 1: prevention
Year of Publication2020
Issuing InstitutionWHO
Recommendation
Status
Maintained
Recommended in favor
Conditional
Certainty of evidence
Very low
The absence of any symptoms of TB and the absence of abnormal chest radiographic findings may be used to rule out active TB disease among HIV-negative household contacts aged ≥ 5 years and other risk groups before preventive treatment.
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