Previous ed.: London: Arnold, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of tuberculosis from earliest times to the development of dr ugs / Charlotte Roberts, Jane Buikstra -- Epidemiology / Christopher Dy e -- Genotyping and its implications for transmission dynamics and tube rculosis / Charles L. Daley -- Mycobacterium tuberculosis / John M. Gra nge -- Diagnosis of tuberculosis / Neil W. Schluger -- Immunodiagnostic tests / Melissa R. Nyendak, Deborah A. Lewinsohn, David M. Lewinsohn - - Histopathology / Sebastian B. Lucas -- Human immune response to tuber culosis / Stephan K. Schwander, Jerrold J. Ellner -- Respiratory tuberc ulosis / Stephen Gordon, Henry Mwandumba -- Non-respiratory tuberculosi s / Peter Ormerod -- Tuberculosis in childhood / Delane Shingadia --

Clinical pharmacology of the antituberculosis drugs / Charles A. Pel oquin -- Chemotherapy including drug-resistant therapy and future devel opments / Wing Wai Yew -- New developments in treatment / Quijiang Chen , William R. Bishai, Eric L. Nuermberger -- International standards for tuberculosis care / Philip C. Hopewell, Elizabeth L. Fair, Madhukar Pa i -- Surgical management of tuberculosis and its complications / Peter Goldstraw -- Directly observed therapy and other aspects of management of tuberculosis care / S. Bertel Squire -- DOTS and DOTS-Plus / Sonya S hin, Jaime Bayona, Paul Farmer -- Association between HIV and tuberculo sis in the developing world, with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa / Anthony D. Harries, Rony Zachariah -- HIV and TB in industrialized cou ntries / Anton Pozniak -- Tuberculosis and migration / Paul Albert, Pet er D.O. Davies -- Preventive therapy / Jean-Pierre Zellweger -- Clinica l interpretation of tests for latent tuberculosis infection / Victoria J. Cook, Mark FitzGerald, Dick Menzies -- BCG vaccination / Hans L. Rie der -- Control of tuberculosis in low-prevalence countries / Daniel Sag ebiel -- Control of tuberculosis in high-prevalence countries / Jayant N. Banavaliker -- Role of the specialist TB nurse / Susan Jamieson -- G lobal Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 / Sarah England, Marcos Espinal, Mario Raviglione -- Environmental mycobacteria / John Banks, Ian A. Campbell -- Animal tuberculosis / Dirk U. Pfeiffer.