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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Peter D. O. Davies ! MA! DM! FRCP! professor and consultant physician! Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital! UK Ajit Lalvani ! chair of infectious diseases! director! Tuberculosis Research Centre! National Heart and Lung Institute! Imperial College London! UK Muhunthan Thillai ! BA! MBBS! MRCP! PhD! consultant chest physician! Interstitial Lung Disease Unit! Papworth and Cambridge University Hospitals! UK Klappentext Pocket-sized "how-to" handbook for clinicians managing paitients with tuberculosis in either well-resourced or poorly resourced geographic settings. Zusammenfassung Clinical Tuberculosis: A Practical Handbook is a much-needed portable clinical reference providing practical guidance on key aspects of the disease. This pocket-sized book is a useful "how-to" handbook for the clinician managing patients with tuberculosis in either a well-resourced or poorly-resourced setting. Packed with case studies! clinical pearls of wisdom! and practical advice! this clinical manual outlines day-to-day management of patients as well as treatment and control of this important and ever-spreading global disease. A wealth of diagrams and clinical photographs also helps to make information available at a glance. It is intended for respiratory physicians! infectious disease physicians! public health workers! and nurses less familiar with the disease! especially in developing world markets where TB and HIV are endemic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Epidemiology Diana Lees Pathophysiology! Microbiology and Immunopathology William J. Kent Pulmonary Disease Dilip Nazareth and Andrea M Collins Extra-Pulmonary Disease Gurinder Tack and Laura Watkins Tuberculosis in Children David K.K. Ho Treatment Rahuldeb Sarkar New Drugs for TB Syed Murtaza H. Kazmi Latent Tuberculosis Infection Manish Gautam Tuberculosis and HIV Co-Infection Daniel Komrower and Muhunthan Thillai Vaccination Gareth H. Jones Tuberculosis Control Maria Elpida Phitidis ...
