Tuberculosis
Subtitle: laboratory diagnosis and treatment strategies
By: edited by Timothy D. McHugh
Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology -- 21; Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology -- 21.
Publisher: CAB International
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxfordshire
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845938079
Subjects: Drug Discovery; Molecular Diagnostic Techniques; Antitubercular Agents; Tuberculosis; Diagnosis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Improving upon sputum smear microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis in resource-poor settings / Andrew Ramsay, Karen R Steingart, and Madhukar Pai; title: 2. Molecular diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis / Anna Bateson, Kate Reddington, and Justin O'Grady; title: 3. Improving on the LJ slope : automated liquid culture / Miguel Viveiros ... [et al.]; title: 4. Interferon gamma release assays in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection / Ajit Lalvani, Manish Pareek; title: 5. Measuring TB immune responses in the lung : the correct target? / Ronan Breen, Marc Lipman; title: 6. Sniffing out TB / Ruth McNerney, Claire Turner; title: 7. Role of phenotypic methods for drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis isolates in the era of MDR and XDR epidemics / Leonid Heifets; title: 8. Genotypic measures of antibiotic susceptibility / Vanessa Mathys, Barun Mathema, and Pablo Bifani; title: 9. Molecular tools for fast identification of resistance and characterization of MDR/XDR-TB / Dick van Soolingen; title: 10. Monitoring therapy by bacterial load / Denise M. O'Sullivan; title: 11. Modelling responses to tuberculosis treatment / G. R. Davies; title: 12. Measuring gene expression by quantitative PCR (qPCR) / Isobella Honeyborne; title: 13. Transcriptomic approaches to mapping responses to drug therapy for tuberculosis / Simon J. Waddell, Philip D. Butcher; title: 14. Mycobacterial lipid bodies and resuscitation-promoting factor dependency as potential biomarkers of response to chemotherapy / N. J. Garton, G. V. Mukamoloval, and M. R. Barer; title: 15. Clinical trials in tuberculosis chemotherapy : the challenges / Stephen H. Gillespie; title: 16. The identification of 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylates (ATCs) as a new class of TB agent : a lesson in HIT identification / Geoff Coxon; title: 17. Rifamycins revisited / Martin J. Boeree; title: 18. Therapy of the XDR-TB patients with thioridazine :an old drug with new applications / Leonard Amaral ... [et al.]; title: 19. Vaccines for tuberculosis / Helen McShane.