Despite increased funding, control measures and medications, tuberculosis (TB) remains as problem in the U.S. Jane Gould, MD, a pediatric TB consultant with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, discusses TB trends, risk factors for developing TB disease, treating latent TB, screening for TB, and more. Published March 2017.

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