Overview
- Offers up-to-date information that can be incorporated into a busy practice of clinicians
- Provides broad international perspectives and gain in-depth knowledge on TB
- Each chapter/topic is written by one of the top TB experts in the field and the authors are from Japan and the US
Part of the book series: Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements (RDSDTDM)
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Every year, 10 million people fall ill with tuberculosis (TB) in the world, and of those, 1.5 million people die even though it is a preventable and curable disease. As a result, TB remains the world’s leading infectious cause of death. On the other hand, in industrialized countries, the TB incidence has fallen to a historic low, and clinicians’ experience with TB diminished significantly in recent years. Additional challenges for clinicians include atypical presentation of TB in the immunocompromised, especially among the elderly, and an increasing number of patients with drug-resistant TB. Delayed diagnosis of TB leads to the spread of TB including nosocomial transmission because TB is an air-borne infectious disease, and suboptimal treatment can result in development of drug resistance. Furthermore, treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI) can prevent future TB cases but it has been under-utilized despite recent innovations in diagnosis and treatment regimens of LTBI. This bookfocuses on advances in diagnostic tools and treatment for both TB disease and latent TB infection. Each chapter/topic is written by one of the top TB experts in the field and the authors are from Japan and the US.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis and its Prevention offers up-to-date information that can be incorporated into a busy practice of clinicians while they can appreciate broad international perspectives and gain in-depth knowledge on TB.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis and its Prevention offers up-to-date information that can be incorporated into a busy practice of clinicians while they can appreciate broad international perspectives and gain in-depth knowledge on TB.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Epidemiology and Pathogenesis
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Pulmonary TB
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Latent TB Infection: TB Prevention
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Research Areas
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Takefumi Saito, MD, PhDNational Hospital Organization Ibarakihigashi Hospital
Masahiro Narita, MD
University of Washington
Charles Daley, MD
National Jewish Health
University of Colorado
Masahiro Narita, MD
University of Washington
Charles Daley, MD
National Jewish Health
University of Colorado
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Its Prevention
Editors: Takefumi Saito, Masahiro Narita, Charles L. Daley
Series Title: Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3995-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3994-5Published: 21 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3995-2Published: 20 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2509-5552
Series E-ISSN: 2509-5560
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 294
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Internal Medicine