Asymptomatic Tuberculosis in Children With Household Exposure to <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>
Asymptomatic TB that meets the consensus case definitions for both Confirmed and Unconfirmed disease is common in TB-exposed children. All child household contacts should be actively investigated for TB, regardless of symptoms, before a decision is made on curative or preventive therapy.
Authors
- Mark Hatherill (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3491-1809)
- John A. Altin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7587-7470)
- Humphrey Mulenga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2030-0751)
- Elisa Nemes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1662-4961)
- Justin Shenje (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3054-3930)
- Karen M. Dobos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7115-8524)
- Simon C. Mendelsohn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4054-2766)
- Michèle Tameris (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7983-7203)
- Thomas J. Scriba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0641-1359)
- Munyaradzi Musvosvi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4526-8479)
- Thomas R. Hawn (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2368-3185)
- Jason Randolph Andrews (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5967-251X)
- Nicole Bilek
- Angelique K. Luabeya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2008-0450)
- Dejana Ivacik-Goncalves
- Elisabeth Beyers
- Enid N Tredoux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5601-3466)
Institutions
- Translational Genomics Research Institute (US)
- University of Cape Town (ZA)
- University of Washington (US)
- South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (ZA)
- Colorado State University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Published
- 2025-10-13
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaf562
- Primary Topic
- Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00