Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis

Jeffrey R. Starke, MD, has been the Director of the Children's Tuberculosis Clinic at Ben Taub General Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital for 30 years. He has published over 110 articles and 40 chapters on childhood tuberculosis. He has served on numerous advisory and guideline groups, and is a former Chairman of the U.S. CDC Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. His wife, Joan Shook, is also a pediatrician and all three of their children are in various stages of medical training. Peter R. Donald, MD, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is active in various tuberculosis research activities focused on anti-tuberculosis drug assessment in adults and children and various aspects of the management and treatment of childhood tuberculosis. He continues to lecture on childhood tuberculosis throughout the world.

Preface

About the editors

List of Abbreviations

Contributors

1. A Brief History of Childhood Tuberculosis
Peter R. Donald

2. Microbiology and Pathology of Tuberculosis
Anne-Marie Demers, Andrew C. Whitelaw, Kathleen D. Eisenach

3. Immunology of Tuberculosis
Beate Kampmann, Elizabeth Whittaker

4. Natural History of Childhood Tuberculosis
Ben J. Marais

5. Global Epidemiology of Childhood Tuberculosis
Charalambos Sismanidis, Philille Glaziou, Malgosia Grzemska, Katherine Floyd, Mario Raviglione

6. Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection in Children
Anna M. Mandalakas, Andrew DiNardo

7. Microbiologic Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Disease in Children
Mark P. Nicol, Heather J. Zar

8. Radiology of Childhood Tuberculosis
Savvas Andronikou, Tracy Kilborn

9. Diagnosis of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis
Carlos M. Perez-Velez

10. Diagnosis of the Most Common Forms of Extrathoracic Tuberculosis in Children
H. Simon Schaaf, Anthony J. Garcia-Prats

11. Central Nervous System Tuberculosis in Children
Ronald van Toorn

12. Tuberculosis in Adolescents
Andrea T. Cruz

13. Tuberculosis in Neonates and Infants
Adrie Bekker

14. Tuberculosis in HIV-infected and -Exposed Infants, Children and Adolescents
Helena Rabie, Mark F. Cotton

15. Antituberculosis Drugs in Children
Helen McIlleron

16. Treatment of Tuberculosis Infection in Children
Amina Ahmed

17. Management of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis in Children
Soumya Swaminathan, N. Poorana Ganga Devi

18. Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children
James Seddon

19. Tuberculosis Vaccines: the old and the New
Kim Connelly Smith, Ian M. Orme, Jeffrey R. Starke

20. Mycobacterium bovis [non-BCG] in Children
Jeffrey R. Starke

21. Public Health and Programmatic Issues for Childhood Tuberculosis
Jeffrey R. Starke

22. The Roadmap for Childhood Tuberculosis
Stephen M. Graham, Anne Detjen


Index