Tuberculosis
By: edited by Christoph Lange and Giovanni Battista Migliori
Contributors: European Respiratory Society
Series: European respiratory monograph -- 58; European respiratory monograph -- 58.
Publisher: European Respiratory Society
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sheffield
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781849840286; 9781283868570; 9781849840279
Subjects: Tuberculosis; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Treatment; Prevention; Bacterial Infections and Mycoses; Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Infections; Mycobacterium Infections; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Disease; Actinomycetales Infections; Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections; Bacterial Infections; MEDICAL; Oncology
Description: This Monograph draws together state-of-the-art articles on TB. It focuses on the latest developments in the areas of epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Blank page; Title page; Blank page; Table of contents; Preface; Guest Editors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Microbiology of Mycobacterium tubersulosis and a new diagnostic test for TB; Chapter 2. Epidemiology of TB; Chapter 3. Pulmonary diseases caused by non-tuberculous mycobacteria; Chapter 4. Human genetic variability and susceptibility to pulmonary TB; Chapter 5. State of the art in vaccine development against TB; Chapter 6. Prevention of TB in areas of low incidence; Chapter 7. Prevention of TB in areas of high incidence; Chapter 8. TB drug resistance in high-incidence countries.; title: Chapter 9. TB drug resistance in low-incidence countriesChapter 10. Diagnosis of TB: state of the art; Chapter 11. Omics and single molecule detection: the future of TB diagnostics; Chapter 12. Treatment of TB; Chapter 13. Management of adverse drug events in TB therapy; Chapter 14. TB in migrants; Chapter 15. TB in children; Chapter 16. TB as an occupational disease; Chapter 17. TB in the immunocompromised host; Chapter 18. The WHO strategy for TB control and elimination.