Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID)
Volume 62 Issue 6 March 15, 2016
http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/current

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Toward Earlier Inclusion of Pregnant and Postpartum Women in Tuberculosis Drug Trials: Consensus Statements From an International Expert Panel
Amita Gupta, Jyoti S. Mathad, Susan M. Abdel-Rahman, Jessica D. Albano, Radu Botgros,
Vikki Brown, Renee S. Browning, Liza Dawson, Kelly E. Dooley, Devasena Gnanashanmugam,
Beatriz Grinsztejn, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, Patrick Jean-Philippe, Peter Kim, Anne D. Lyerly,
Mark Mirochnick, Lynne M. Mofenson, Grace Montepiedra, Jeanna Piper, Leyla Sahin, Radojka Savic, Betsy Smith, Hans Spiegel, Soumya Swaminathan, D. Heather Watts, and Amina White
Clin Infect Dis. (2016) 62 (6): 761-769 doi:10.1093/cid/civ991

Consensus statements from an expert panel to include pregnant and postpartum women in tuberculosis drug trials note high-priority research areas: preventing latent tuberculosis infection progression; evaluating new drugs for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; and safety and pharmacokinetic data for current tuberculosis drugs.