WHO releases updated guidelines on tuberculosis preventive treatment

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Oct 10, 2024
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The WHO has released new guidelines for prophylactic TB treatments. Among the updates to the guidelines are adjusted dosage recommendations and a new recommendation for a 6 month course of levofloxacin for individual exposed to TB or MDR-TB. Learn more here.

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