Clinical Tuberculosis

by Davies, Peter D. O.

• ISBN13: 9780340809167
• ISBN10: 0340809167
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-23
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

Tubersulosis is an increasing problem both in the developing and developed world. This book supplies the necessary information for any doctor, nurse or allied medical professional who needs more information about tuberculosis. It is a particularly rich source of reference to modern up-to-dateliterature regarding diagnosis and management of the disease. It will be an invaluable source for anyone who wishes to find out more about tuberculosis at virtually any level of education. This edition included coverage of newly emerging methods of diagnosis in particular molecular methods asthey are incorporated as routine laboratory tests.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Foreword	xiii
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgements	xix
PART 1 BACKGROUND	1	(42)
1 The history of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of drugs	3	(18)
Charlotte A Roberts and Jane E Buikstra
2 Epidemiology	21	(22)
Christopher Dye
PART 2 PATHOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY	43	(62)
3 Laboratory diagnosis	45	(15)
Maxine Caws and Francis Drobniewski
4 The use of DNA fingerprinting to study tuberculosis	60	(14)
Pam Sonnenberg and Peter Godfrey-Faussett
5 Histopathology	74	(14)
Sebastian B Lucas
6 Immunophysiology and immunopathology	88	(17)
John M Grange
PART 3 CLINICAL ASPECTS	105	(64)
7 Respiratory tuberculosis	107	(18)
Peter D O Davies
8 Non-respiratory tuberculosis	125	(29)
L Peter Ormerod
9 Tuberculosis in childhood	154	(15)
H Simon Schaaf, Robert P Gie and Nulda Beyers
PART 4 TREATMENT	169	(82)
10 Clinical pharmacology of the anti-tuberculosis drugs	171	(20)
Charles A Peloquin
11 Chemotherapy of tuberculosis: present, future and beyond	191	(20)
Wing Wai Yew
12 DOTS and DOTS-Plus: not the only answer	211	(13)
Sonya Shin, Jaime Bayona and Paul Farmer
13 The surgery of tuberculosis	224	(18)
Peter Goldstraw
14 Directly observed therapy and other aspects in the management of the tuberculosis patient	242	(9)
Peter D O Davies
PART 5 TUBERCULOSIS IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS	251	(54)
15 The association between HIV and tuberculosis in the developing world with a special focus on sub-Saharan Africa	253	(25)
Anthony D Harries
16 The association between HIV and tuberculosis in industrialised countries	278	(16)
Anton Pozniak
17 Tuberculosis and migration	294	(11)
Jean-Pierre Zellweger
PART 6 PREVENTION	305	(50)
18 Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection	307	(16)
Richard J O'Brien
19 Interpretation of the tuberculin skin test	323	(14)
J Mark FitzGerald and Dick Menzies
20 BCG vaccination	337	(18)
Hans L Rieder
PART 7 CONTROL	355	(82)
21 Control in low-prevalence countries	357	(24)
Robert Loddenkemper and Daniel Sagebiel
22 Control in high-prevalence countries	381	(21)
Jayant N Banavaliker
23 Specific problems of control in India	402	(15)
Zarir F Udwadia
24 Specific problems of control in Africa	417	(10)
Aiwyn G Mwinga
25 Patient holding	427	(10)
Gini Williams
PART 8 OTHER ASPECTS OF TUBERCULOSIS	437	(22)
26 Environmental mycobacteria	439	(10)
John Banks and Ian A Campbell
27 Tuberculosis in animals	449	(10)
Dirk U Pfeiffer
PART 9 CONCLUSIONS	459	(10)
28 Conclusions	461	(8)
Peter D O Davies
Index	469