Therapy

Suicide Try Suggests Teens on TB Prevention Need Monitoring

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 10th, 1996

A suicide attempt by a teenager who overdosed on the isoniazid he was taking to prevent tuberculosis suggests that observed prophylaxis may be warranted in this age-group.

This finding by researchers from the New Jersey Medical School National Tuberculosis Center was presented at the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society 1996 International Conference held May 10-15 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

"Directly observed preventive therapy (DOPT) is rarely considered necessary in preventive therapy especially in children and adolescents because of the conventional wisdom that resource priorities for cure of the active case always takes...

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