Tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis On the Web |
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Assistant Editor-in-Chief: Somal Khan
Overview
Historical Perspective
Pathophysiology
Epidemiology and Demographics
Risk Factors
Natural History, Complications and Prognosis
Causes
Diagnosis
History and Symptoms | Physical Examination | Laboratory Findings | Electrocardiogram | Chest X Ray | MRI | CT | Echocardiography or Ultrasound | Other Imaging Findings
Treatment
Medical Therapy | Primary Prevention | Secondary Prevention | Cost-Effectiveness of Therapy | Future or Investigational Therapies
Related Chapters
- 2007 tuberculosis scare
- Abreugraphy
- ATC code J04 Drugs for treatment of TB
- Buruli ulcer and leprosy: other diseases caused by mycobacteria
- Latent tuberculosis
- Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium
- National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
- Nontuberculous mycobacteria
- Philip D'Arcy Hart
- UNITAID
- Nosocomial infection
Further reading
- Blumberg HM, Leonard MK, Jasmer RM (2005). "Update on the treatment of tuberculosis and latent tuberculosis infection". JAMA. 293 (22): 2776–84. doi:10.1001/jama.293.22.2776. PMID 15941808.
- Dormandy, Thomas (2000). The White Death. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 0814719279.
- Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic Society (2000). "Control and prevention of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom: code of practice 2000". Thorax. 55 (11): 887–901. PMID 11050256.
- Kidder, Tracy (2004). Mountains Beyond Mountains. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 0812973011. A nonfiction account of treating TB in Haiti, Peru, Russia, and elsewhere.
- Lawlor, Clark (2007). Consumption and Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0230020038.
- Nemery B, Yew WW, Albert R; et al. (2005). "Tuberculosis, nontuberculous lung infection, pleural disorders, pulmonary function, respiratory muscles, occupational lung disease, pulmonary infections, and social issues in AJRCCM in 2004". Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 171 (6): 554–62. doi:10.1164/rccm.2412009. PMID 15753485.
- Ryan, Frank (1993), The Forgotten Plague: How the Battle Against Tuberculosis Was Won — and Lost, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, ISBN 0-316-76380-2. First published in the United Kingdom as Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told.
- Walton D, Farmer P (2000). "MSJAMA: the new white plague". JAMA. 284 (21): 2789. PMID 11105192.
External links
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of Tuberculosis Elimination. Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis: What the Clinician Should Know. 4th edition (2000). Updated Aug 2003.
- (CDC) - Division of Tuberculosis Elimination News and updates.
- (CDC) - Questions and Answers About TB, 2007.
- Health Protection Agency, England - [2]
- BioHealthBase Bioinformatics Resource Center. Database of Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome sequences and related information.
- Kaiser Family Foundation. Tuberculosis. Globalhealthfacts.org.
- The Nobel Prize Website. Tuberculosis Educational Game
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance (TBCTA).
- World Health Organization (WHO). Tuberculosis.
- Tuberculosis and HIV: HIV InSite Knowledge Base chapter and related resources.
- (CDC) Respiratory Protection in Health-Care Settings
- (CDC) Infection Control in Health-Care Settings
- (CDC) Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Disease
- (CDC) Treatment of Tuberculosis: American Thoracic Society, CDC, and Infectious Diseases Society of America
- (CDC) Tuberculosis Information for International Travelers
- (CDC) Trends in Tuberculosis, 2006 – United States