Tuberculosis and pregnancy

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.), Division of Tuberculosis Elimination.
• Description:
  "Untreated tuberculosis (TB) disease represents a greater hazard to a pregnant woman and her fetus than does its treatment. Treatment of pregnant women should be initiated whenever the probability of TB is moderate to high. Infants born to women with untreated TB may be of lower birth weight than those born to women without TB and, in rare circumstances the infant may be born with TB. Although the drugs used in the initial treatment regimen for TB cross the placenta, they do not appear to have harmful effects on the fetus." - p. 1
  
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• Subjects:
  Pregnancy Tuberculosis
• Series:
  TB Elimination
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Patient Education Handout ; Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  electronic resourc; remote; 2 p. : digital, PDF file (1.01 MB, 2 p.)
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4642a28b51f4fbb81be113f0de421c85630de7afc478b564e3730be972d0092815b57816a2cdb4a00f06eee9d3a6356167af10674f0790bcf73cb1f38e010c63
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/12296/cdc_12296_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.01 MB ]