Content: Background The History of Tuberculosis from Earliest Times to the Development of Drugs; Charlotte A. Roberts and Jane E. Buikstra Epidemiology; Ted Cohen and Christopher Dye Pathology and Immunology Mycobacterium tuberculosis - The Organism; John M. Grange Genotyping and Its Implications for Transmission Dynamics and Tuberculosis Control; Laura Anderson Histopathology; Helen C. Wainwright Diagnosis Immunodiagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection; Ajit Lalvani, Manish Pareek and Katrina Pollock Diagnosis of Tuberculosis; Luis E. Cuevas Tuberculosis Clinical Immunology; Robert S. Wallis Clinical Aspects Respiratory Tuberculosis; Aravind Ponnuswamy Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System; Guy Thwaites Non-Respiratory Tuberculosis; Peter Ormerod Tuberculosis in Childhood; Delane Shingadia Treatment Clinical Pharmacology of the Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs; Abdullah AlSultan and Charles A. Peloquin Chemotherapy Including Drug-Resistant Therapy; Gerry Davies New Developments in Drug Treatment; Alexander S. Pym The Surgical Management of Tuberculosis and Its Complications; Richard S. Steyn Tuberculosis in Special Situations Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Tuberculosis Co-Infection; Keertan Dheda and Greg Calligaro Tuberculosis and Migration; Einar Heldal Tuberculosis and Poverty: A Clinical Perspective; S. Bertel Squire Multi- and Extreme Drug Resistance: The Experience of India; Zarir F. Udwadia Prevention Preventive Therapy; Jean-Pierre Zellweger Bacille Calmette-Guerin and Prospects for New Vaccines against Tuberculosis; Helen McShane Control Community Approaches to Tuberculosis Treatment; Kwonjune J. Seung and Michael L. Rich Control of Tuberculosis in Low-incidence Countries; Ibrahim Abubakar and Robert Aldridge Control of Tuberculosis in High-Prevalence Countries; Jayant N. Banavaliker The Role of the Tuberculosis Nurse Specialist; Christine E. Bell Related Aspects Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria; Jakko van Ingen Animal Tuberculosis; Dirk U. Pfeiffer and Leigh A. L. Corner Conclusions Conclusions
Abstract: ''Completely updated and revised, and now with a digital version, Clinical Tuberculosis continues to provide the TB worker, whether in public health, laboratory science, or clinical practice, with a synoptic and definitive account of the latest methods of diagnosis, treatment and control of this important and ever-spreading global disease. New for the fifth edition, a totally revised section on the latest diagnostic methods includes techniques of gamma interferon based blood tests for the screening of latent infection to the new molecular techniques for diagnosing the species of Mycobacterium and identifying the gene for rifampicin resistance. Updated content on the human immune response to the tubercle bacillus. New developments such as the microscopic observation for drug sensitivity are detailed. Expanded sections on the management and control of TB both locally and globally. A wealth of new diagrams and clinical photographs help make the information available at a glance. With vital source e book: download the e book to your computer or access it anywhere with an internet browser, search the full text and add your own notes and highlights, link through from references to Pub Med''