A clinician's guide to tuberculosis
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins ,
c2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Tuberculosis Down Through the Centuries
- 2. Biology and Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis
- 3. How Is Tuberculosis Transmitted?
- 4. Immunity and Pathogenesis
- 5. Tuberculosis Epidemiology
- 6. Clinical Presentations: Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Adults
- 7. Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis in Adults
- 8. Tuberculosis in Relation to Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- 9. Pediatric Tuberculosis
- 10. Tuberculosis Chemotherapy, Including Directly Observed Therapy
- 11. Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
- 12. Preventive Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis
- 13. Vaccination to Prevent Tuberculosis and Immunomodulatory Therapy for Persons with Active Disease
- 14. Preventing Transmission of Tuberculosis within Institutions