Clinical Tuberculosis, Third Edition -

Clinical Tuberculosis, Third Edition

Peter D. O. Davies (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
448 Seiten
2003 | 3rd New edition
Hodder Arnold (Verlag)
978-0-340-80916-7 (ISBN)
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Provides an account of tuberculosis, including information on various aspects of the disease. This book gives practical guidance to health professionals, containing chapters on epidemiology, pathology, immunology, disease presentation, diagnosis, treatment and management options.
This established reference is a comprehensive and synoptic account of tuberculosis, providing up-to-date information on all aspects of the disease. It gives practical guidance to health professionals who may be involved in any aspect of patient management or disease control, including fully referenced chapters on epidemiology, pathology, immunology, disease presentation, diagnosis, treatment and management options. Specific consideration is given to the problems of TB associated with HIV infection, and issues of control relating to low and high prevalence countries respectively. The ongoing issues surrounding the BCG vaccination and preventive therapy are also covered, as are the increasing problems of multi-drug resistant strains and environmental opportunist mycobacteria.



Clinical Tuberculosis remains an essential reference for respiratory physicians, infectious disease specialists, public health workers and other individuals involved in the management and control of tuberculosis worldwide.

Editor: Peter D.O. Davies Since qualifying from Oxford University in Medicine in 1973 the Editor has had a continual interest in tuberculosis. He worked for two years as a Scientific Officer at the Tuberculosis Research Unit at the Brompton Hospital under Wallace ---. In 1988 he was appointed Consultant Physician in Liverpool and published extensively on all clinical aspects of tuberculosis. He also holds an honorary senior lectureship at the Liverpool University.

Part One: Background
1. The history of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of drugs
2. Epidemiology
Part Two: Pathology and immunology
3. Laboratory diagnosis
4. The use of DNA fingerprinting in the epidemiology of tuberculosis
5. Histopatholog
6. Immunophysiology and immunopathology
Part Three: Clinical aspects
7. Respiratory tuberculosis
8. Non-respiratory tuberculosis
9. Tuberculosis in childhood
Part Four: Treatment
10. Clinical pharmacology of the antituberculosis drugs
11. Chemotherapy of tuberculosis: present, future and beyond
12. DOTS and DOTS-Plus: not the only answer
13. The surgery of tuberculosis
14. Directly observed therapy and other aspects in the management of the tuberculosis patient
Part Five: Tuberculosis in special situations
15. The association between HIV and tuberculosis in the developing world with a special focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
16. The association between HIV and tuberculosis in industrialized countries
17. Tuberculosis and migration
Part Six: Prevention
18. Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection
19. Interpretation of the tuberculin skin test
20. BCG vaccination
Part Seven: Control
21. Control in low prevalence countries
22. Control in high prevalence countries
23. Specific problems of control in India
24. Specific problems of control in Africa
25. Patient Holding
Part Eight: Other aspects of tuberculosis
26. Environmental mycobacteria
27. Tuberculosis in animals
Part Nine:
28. Conclusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag 29.8.2003
Zusatzinfo 102 line, 114 B&W tone, 18 colour plates
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 202 x 270 mm
Themenwelt Medizinische Fachgebiete Innere Medizin Pneumologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Infektiologie / Immunologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10 0-340-80916-7 / 0340809167
ISBN-13 978-0-340-80916-7 / 9780340809167
Zustand Neuware
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