Resources

Information for Families/Parents

• Gastric Aspirates - Information for Families
   
• Instructions for Families of Children Exposed to Tuberculosis (TB)
   
• Instructions for Families of Children with Positive TB Skin Tests
   
• Instructions for Families of Children with Active Tuberculosis

Information for Providers

• Treatment Regimens for non-MDR Tuberculosis in Children 
   
• Drug Dosing Overview
   
• Medication Delivery
   
• Gastric Aspirates: Patient Preparation and Procedure
   
• Daily Dosing Tables
   
• Twice Weekly Dosing Tables

Internet Resources

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  http://www.aap.org/
   
• American Thoracic Society
  http://www.thoracic.org/
   
• Curry International Tuberculosis Center
  http://currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/
   
• Division of TB Elimination, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov/tb/
   
• Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  http://globaltb.njms.rutgers.edu/
   
• Heartland National Tuberculosis Center
  http://www.heartlandntbc.org/
   
• International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
  http://www.theunion.org/
   
• Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
  http://centerfortuberculosis.mayo.edu/
   
• Medscape Pediatrics
  http://www.medscape.com/pediatrics
  http://www.medscape.com/infectiousdiseases
   
• National Jewish Health
  http://www.nationaljewish.org/
   
• Pediatric Radiology
  http://pediatricradiology.com/
   
• Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center
  http://sntc.medicine.ufl.edu/
   
• World Health Organization - Global TB Programme
  http://www.who.int/gtb/

Reading Materials

• Abadco DL, Steiner P. Gastric lavage is better than bronchoalveolar lavage for isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in childhood pulmonary tuberculosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1992;11:735-8.
   
• American Academy of Pediatrics. Tuberculosis. In: Pickering LK, ed. 2000 Red Book: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases. 25th ed. Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2000:593 - 613.
   
• American Thoracic Society and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diagnostic standards and classification of tuberculosis in adults and children. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000;161:1376-1395.
   
• American Thoracic Society and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Targeted tuberculin testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000;161:S221- S247.
   
• Centers for Disease Control Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis. 4th edition, 2000.
   
• Graham SM, Daley HM, Banerjee A, Salaniponi FM, Harries AD. Ethambutol in tuberculosis: time to reconsider? Arch Dis Child. 1998;79:274-278.
   
• Gutman LT. Extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Sem Pediatr Inf Dis. 1993;4:250-260.
   
• Kim WS, Moon WK, Kine IO, et al. Pulmonary tuberculosis in children: evaluation with CT. AJR. 1997;168:1005-1009.
   
• Lobato MN, Loeffler AM, Furst K, Cole B, Hopewell PC. Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in gastric aspirates collected from children: hospitalization is not necessary. Pediatrics. 1998;102:e40.
   
• Nolan CM. Community-wide implementation of targeted testing for and treatment of latent tuberuclosis infection. Clin Infec Dis. 1999;29:880-7.
   
• Nolan CM, Goldberg SV, Buskin SE. Hepatotoxicity associated with isoniazid preventive therapy: a 7- year survey from a public health tuberculosis clinic. JAMA. 1999;281:1014 - 1018.
   
• Starke JR, Correa AG. Management of mycobacterial infection and disease in children. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 1995;14:455-70.
   
• Swanson DS, Starke JR. Drug-resistant tuberculosis in pediatrics. Pediatr Clin North Am. 1995;42:553-581.
   
• Vallejo JG, Ong LT, Starke JR. Clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis in infants. Pediatrics. 1994;94:1-7.
   
• Van Scoy RE, Wilkowske CJ. Antimycobacterial therapy. Mayo Clin Proc. 1999;74:1038-1048.