Prevalence of tuberculosis infection in the United States population: the national health and nutrition examination survey, 1999-2000.

Rationale: The goal for tuberculosis (TB) elimination in the United States is a TB disease incidence of less than 1 per million U.S. population by 2010, which requires that the latent TB infection (LTBI) prevalence be less than 1% and decreasing.

Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in treatment of malaria in Western Kenya: increasing resistance and underdosing.

Between 1993 and 1999, we monitored the efficacy of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in 1175 children aged <24 months receiving 2789 treatments for falciparum malaria in western Kenya using a widely deployed age-based dose regimen: infants, 125 plus 6.25 mg (sulfadoxine plus pyrimethamine); children aged 12 to 23 months; 250 plus 12.5 mg.

Treatment history and treatment dose are important determinants of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine efficacy in children with uncomplicated malaria in Western Kenya.

This study retrospectively studied amendable determinants of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) efficacy involving 2869 treatments among 1072 Kenyan children <5 years old who had uncomplicated malaria. The dose was based on age: one-quarter tablet was given to infants <1 year old, one-half tablet was given to 1-3-year-old children, and a full tablet was given to 4-year-old children. Only 23.