Tuberculosis, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine
By Neil W. Schluger, MD
240 pages,
Copyright 2005
ISBN:1416028110
Contents:
1. New Diagnostic Tools for Latent Tuberculosis and Active Disease (Schluger) 2. Tuberculosis Vaccines: Past, Present and Future (Geiter) 3. Genetic Susceptibility to Tuberculosis (Bellamy) 4. Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in the United States (Castro and Schneider) 5. Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (Sterling) 6. Global Epidemiology of TB (Raviglione and Maher) 7. The DOTS Strategy for Controlling the Global TB Epidemic (Frieden) 8. The Origin and Evolution of M. Tuberculosis (Behr) 9. Public/NGO/Private Partnership in TB Research and Disease Control (Pablos-Mendez) 10. TB and HIV (Burman) 11. Tuberculosis in Children (Saiman and Feja) 12. Molecular Epidemiology: A Tool for Understanding and Control of Tuberculosis Transmission (Daley) 13. New Drugs for Tuberculosis (O'Brien and Spigelman) 14. Treatment of Active Tuberculosis (Weis)