Recorded: EIP 2011 ● Language: English ● Duration: 16 minutes ● Topic: Pediatric Infectious Diseases

     
 

Speaker: DAVID GREENBERG, Senior Paediatrician and consultant in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit Soroka University Medical Center, Ben Gurion, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  
     
  Learning objectives: (1) Review of the basic principles and current regimens of tuberculosis treatment in children. (2) Update on recent pharmacokinetic (PK) data on first-line anti –TB drugs and revised WHO dosing recommendations for children (3) Treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis