Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections - 7th Edition

Informationen zum Autor David Schlossberg, MD, FACP, is Medical Director of the Tuberculosis Control Program at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He is Professor of Medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Yale University and Tufts Medical School and completed his medical residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, and his infectious disease fellowship at Emory University, Atlanta. Dr. Schlossberg has received numerous teaching awards and has published more than 100 articles, editorials, and book chapters and 28 books on infectious disease. Klappentext For Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections, Dr. Schlossberg assembled an international team of experts to write about nearly every facet of the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. In addition to presenting the latest clinical data, epidemiological findings, and policy and strategy recommendations of the World Health Organization, four new chapters cover topics of critical importance:* The role of therapeutic drug monitoring in mycobacterial infections* The public health issues of refugees and migrants, and their exposure and transmission of tuberculosis resulting from humanitarian crises* Diabetes mellitus as a significant risk factor for tuberculosis* The increased risk of tuberculosis reactivation in people taking tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitors and other biopharmaceuticals Other chapters provide detailed information on the clinical, public health, and policy aspects of tracking and treating tuberculosis, including:* The many presentations of tuberculosis, from pulmonary to ocular and cardiovascular to urogenital* The complications that tuberculosis and antituberculosis therapy cause to the hematologic and endocrine systems* Tuberculosis during pregnancy and in infants and children* Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drugresistant tuberculosis* Development of new vaccines* Nontuberculous infections caused by mycobacteria found throughout our environmentThe seventh edition of Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections is an essential resource for anyone working to prevent and treat tuberculosis and associated infections, from infectious disease specialists to scientists, policymakers, and epidemiologists. Zusammenfassung For Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections! Dr. Schlossberg assembled an international team of experts to write about nearly every facet of the prevention! diagnosis! and treatment of tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. In addition to presenting the latest clinical data! epidemiological findings! and policy and strategy recommendations of the World Health Organization! four new chapters cover topics of critical importance:* The role of therapeutic drug monitoring in mycobacterial infections* The public health issues of refugees and migrants! and their exposure and transmission of tuberculosis resulting from humanitarian crises* Diabetes mellitus as a significant risk factor for tuberculosis* The increased risk of tuberculosis reactivation in people taking tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitors and other biopharmaceuticals Other chapters provide detailed information on the clinical! public health! and policy aspects of tracking and treating tuberculosis! including:* The many presentations of tuberculosis! from pulmonary to ocular and cardiovascular to urogenital* The complications that tuberculosis and antituberculosis therapy cause to the hematologic and endocrine systems* Tuberculosis during pregnancy and in infants and children* Treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and extensively drugresistant tuberculosis* Development of new vaccines* Nontuberculous infections c...

List of contents

Contributors
 
Preface
 
I. General Considerations
 
1. Tuberculosis in History: Did It Change the Way We Live?
Thomas M. Daniel
 
2. Epidemiology and Host Factors
Jay B. Mehta and Asim K. Dutt
 
3. Perspectives for Developing New Tuberculosis Vaccines Derived from the Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis
Arthur M. Dannenberg, Jr. and Bappaditya Dey
 
4. Laboratory Diagnosis and Susceptibility Testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Gary W. Procop
 
5. Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
Alfred A. Lardizabal and Lee B. Reichman
 
6. Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection
Connie A. Haley
 
7. Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis
Thomas E. Dobbs and Risa M. Webb
 
8. The Role of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Mycobacterial Infections
Charles Peloquin
 
9. Therapy of Multidrug-Resistant and Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Barbara J. Seaworth and David E. Griffith
 
10. Role of Surgery in the Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculosis
Alan D.L. Sihoe
 
11. Mycobacterium bovis BCG and New Vaccines for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Timothy Lahey and C. Fordham Von Reyn
 
12. Tuberculosis--a World Health Organization Perspective
Giovanni Sotgiu, Giorgia Sulis, and Alberto Matteelli
 
13. Crisis-Affected Populations and Tuberculosis
Dominik Zenner
 
14. Tuberculosis in Enclosed Populations
Sorana Segal-Maurer
 
15. Role of the Health Department in Tuberculosis Prevention and Control--Legal and Public Health Considerations
Carla Jeffries, Phil LoBue, Terence Chorba, Beverly Metchock, and Ijaz Kashef
 
II. Clinical Syndromes
 
16. Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Sarah M. Lyon and Milton D. Rossman
 
17. Upper Respiratory Tract Tuberculosis
Surinder K. Jindal, Aditya Jindal, and Ritesh Agarwal
 
18. Tuberculous Otomastoiditis
Jonathan M. Hand and George A. Pankey
 
19. Ocular Tuberculosis
Daniel M. Albert and Meisha L. Raven
 
20. Central Nervous System Tuberculosis
John M. Leonard
 
21. Tuberculous Lymphadenitis and Parotitis
Juan Carlos Cataño and Jaime Robledo
 
22. Urogenital Tuberculosis
André A. Figueiredo, Antônio M. Lucon, and Miguel Srougi
 
23. Musculoskeletal Tuberculosis
Henry M. Blumberg and Michael K. Leonard, Jr.
 
24. Cardiovascular Tuberculosis
John A. Crocco
 
25. Gastrointestinal Tuberculosis
Eric H. Choi and Walter J. Coyle
 
26. Tuberculous Peritonitis
Urvashi Vaid and Gregory C. Kane
 
27. Tuberculosis of the Liver, Biliary Tract, and Pancreas
G. Shelton McMullan and James H. Lewis
 
28. Cutaneous Tuberculosis
Michael K. Hill and Charles V. Sanders
 
29. Miliary Tuberculosis
Surendra K. Sharma and Alladi Mohan
 
30. Endocrine and Metabolic Aspects of Tuberculosis
Christopher Vinnard and Emily A. Blumberg
 
31. Hematologic Complications of Tuberculosis
Shyam S. Balepur and David Schlossberg
 
32. Tuberculosis in Infants and Children
Jeffrey R. Starke and Gabriella S. Lamb
 
33. Tuberculosis and Pregnancy--Maternal, Fetal, and Neonatal Considerations
Jane M. Gould and Stephen C. Aronoff
 
34. Tuberculosis Associated with HIV Infection
Kelly E. Dooley and Jeffrey A. Tornheim
 
35. Diabetes and Tuberculosis
Blanca I. Restrepo
 
36. Tuberculosis and Transplantation
José M. Aguado, José Tiago Silva, Palash Samanta, and Nina Singh
 
37. Biologic Agents and Tuberculosis
Claudia C. Dobler
 
38. Paradoxical Reactions and the Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome
L.W. Preston Church, Amit Chopra, and Marc A. Judson
 
III. Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
 
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Product details

• Authors: David Schlossberg, David (EDT) Schlossberg, David L. Schlossberg
• Assisted by: Davi L Schlossberg (Editor), David L Schlossberg (Editor), David Schlossberg (Editor), David (Temple University Schlossberg (Editor), David L. Schlossberg (Editor)
• Publisher: American Society for Microbiology
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781555819859
• ISBN: 978-1-55581-985-9
• Dimensions: 232 mm x 287 mm x 44 mm
• Series: ASM Books; ASM
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Mikrobiologie, Medizin, Tuberkulose, microbiology, Medical Science, Mikrobiologie u. Virologie, Mykobakterielle Infektion