Tuberculosis And The Tubercle Bacillus
Contributors: Stewart T. Cole (Editor); Kathleen Davis Eisenach (Editor); David N. McMurray (Editor); Willam R., Jr. Jacobs (Editor)
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781555812959
Subjects: Infectious & contagious diseases; Science/Mathematics; Microbiology; Infectious Diseases; immunology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Tuberculosis; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology
First sentence: Tuberculosis (TB) was catapulted back onto the center stage of international health at the beginning of the 1990s, when New York City and Miami were affected by multiple institutional outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), mainly affecting hospitalized human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive persons and associated with extremely high case fatality rates (7).