Clinical tuberculosis
By: edited by Peter D.O. Davies, Peter F. Barnes, Stephen B. Gordon.
Contributors: Davies, P. D. O.; Barnes, Peter F. 1956-; Gordon, Stephen B.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9780340948408
Subjects: Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis
Description: A resource for respiratory physicians, infectious disease specialists, public health workers and other individuals involved in the management and control of tuberculosis worldwide, this established reference is a comprehensive account of tuberculosis, providing up-to-date and authoritative information on all aspects of the disease. It gives practical guidance to health professionals who may be involved in any aspect of patient management or disease control, including chapters on epidemiology, pathology, immunology, disease presentation, diagnosis, treatment and management options. Specific consideration is given to the problems of TB associated with HIV infection, and issues of control relating to low and high prevalence countries respectively. The ongoing issues surrounding the BCG vaccination and preventive therapy are also covered, as are the increasing problems of multi-drug resistant strains and environmental opportunist mycobacteria.
Notes: Previous ed.: London: Arnold, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of drugs / Charlotte Roberts, Jane Buikstra; title: Epidemiology / Christopher Dye; title: Genotyping and its implications for transmission dynamics and tuberculosis / Charles L. Daley; title: Mycobacterium tuberculosis / John M. Grange; title: Diagnosis of tuberculosis / Neil W. Schluger; title: Immunodiagnostic tests / Melissa R. Nyendak, Deborah A. Lewinsohn, David M. Lewinsohn; title: Histopathology / Sebastian B. Lucas; title: Human immune response to tuberculosis / Stephan K. Schwander, Jerrold J. Ellner; title: Respiratory tuberculosis / Stephen Gordon, Henry Mwandumba; title: Non-respiratory tuberculosis / Peter Ormerod; title: Tuberculosis in childhood / Delane Shingadia; title: Clinical pharmacology of the antituberculosis drugs / Charles A. Peloquin; title: Chemotherapy including drug-resistant therapy and future developments / Wing Wai Yew; title: New developments in treatment / Quijiang Chen, William R. Bishai, Eric L. Nuermberger; title: International standards for tuberculosis care / Philip C. Hopewell, Elizabeth L. Fair, Madhukar Pai; title: Surgical management of tuberculosis and its complications / Peter Goldstraw; title: Directly observed therapy and other aspects of management of tuberculosis care / S. Bertel Squire; title: DOTS and DOTS-Plus / Sonya Shin, Jaime Bayona, Paul Farmer; title: Association between HIV and tuberculosis in the developing world, with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa / Anthony D. Harries, Rony Zachariah; title: HIV and TB in industrialized countries / Anton Pozniak; title: Tuberculosis and migration / Paul Albert, Peter D.O. Davies; title: Preventive therapy / Jean-Pierre Zellweger; title: Clinical interpretation of tests for latent tuberculosis infection / Victoria J. Cook, Mark FitzGerald, Dick Menzies; title: BCG vaccination / Hans L. Rieder; title: Control of tuberculosis in low-prevalence countries / Daniel Sagebiel; title: Control of tuberculosis in high-prevalence countries / Jayant N. Banavaliker; title: Role of the specialist TB nurse / Susan Jamieson; title: Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 / Sarah England, Marcos Espinal, Mario Raviglione; title: Environmental mycobacteria / John Banks, Ian A. Campbell; title: Animal tuberculosis / Dirk U. Pfeiffer.