Publisher's Synopsis
Now established as an essential reference for health professionals dealing with tuberculosis world wide, this second edition is intended not simply as an update. While incorporating recent developments in the scientific understanding of the disease, its diagnosis and management, and new ideas in patient holding, it also examines in much greater depth the difficulties associated with the disease in the developing world, where resources are few and problems of control much more widespread.
While continuing to cover the epidemiology, pathology and clinical features, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, the historical section and chapters on prevention have, in particular, been expanded, a new chapter on economics included and the book now features an important new section of contributions from all over the developing world by local authors. Thus the new edition of 'Clinical Tuberculosis' will remain an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of health professionals involved in the diagnosis, management and control of this increasingly, in modern times, significant disease.
