Clinical Tuberculosis, Third Edition

Thoroughly revised and updated, this reference is a comprehensive and synoptic account of tuberculosis, providing information on all aspects of the disease. It gives practical guidance to professionals and includes expanded coverage of basic science issues associated with disese development and diagnostic methods. 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 isues surrounding the BCG vaccination and preventative therapy are also covered, as are the increasingproblems of multi-drug resistant strains and environmental opportunist mycobacteria.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
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.

Review :
On the second edition: 'as an up-to-date, authoritative, comprehensive, and fully referenced account of tuberculosis, this book is unrivalled' The Lancet This third edition of Clinical Tuberculosis is a timely arrival...its scope is wide and the book's title hardly does it justice. It deserves a place in every medical library and on the desk of every specialist in tuberculosis. Chronic Respiratory Disease this book does a very good job of presenting up-to-date information and opinion on all the main aspects of clinical tuberculosis. In the main, this is done in a concise and readable manner. It is essential reading and a handy reference work for all health-care professionals interested in tuberculosis.