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Main description:
This issue, guest edited by Alimuddin Zumla and H. Simon Schaaf, focuses on the topic of Tuberculosis. Articles include: Global Burden and Epidemiology of Tuberculosis; Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in the West. Europe and the United States: Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Control; Multidrug- and Extensively Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Africa and South America: Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Management in Adults and Children; Antiretroviral Therapy for Control of the HIV-associated Tuberculosis Epidemic in Resource-Limited Settings; Novel and Improved Technologies for Tuberculosis Diagnosis: Progress and Challenges; Advances in Imaging Chest Tuberculosis: Blurring of Differences Between Children and Adults; Update on Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment; Advances in Immunotherapy for Tuberculosis Treatment, and more!
Contents:
To be published in time for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, this focuses on the following topics: Global Burden and Epidemiology of TB; MDR-TB and XDR-TB in the West; MDR and XDR-TB in Africa and South America; Antiretrovial Therapy in the Control of TB; Newer TB Diagnostics; Advances in Imaging for Tuberculosis; Update on TB of the Central Nervous System; Current Clinical TB Drug Trials and Newer Anti-TB Drug Pipelines; Advances in Immunotherapy for TB Treatment; Biomarkers of Disease Activity, Cure, and Relapse in TB; Immune Reconstitution Syndrome and TB Unmasking; Progress and Advances in TB Vaccine Development; and Chemoprophylaxis for TB and Screen for TB.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
Publication date: January, 2010
Pages: None
Weight: 700g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Diseases and Disorders, Paediatrics and Neonatal, Respiratory Medicine
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