Preventive therapy definition
Preventive therapy means either treatment to prevent infection in an uninfected person or treatment to prevent disease in an infected person.
Preventive therapy means treatment of TB infection to prevent the progression to clinically active disease.
Examples of Preventive therapy in a sentence
Preventive therapy (PT) for TB, generally through treatment with the anti-TB drug isoniazid for 6 to 12 months (or IPT), has been clearly demonstrated to decrease the risk of developing TB among those with MTB infection.