Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Starke, Jeffrey R.; Donald, Peter R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Tuberculosis remains one of the most prevalent, deadly, and underdiagnosed infectious diseases in the world. In children, this burden is doubly problematic because of the disease's unique clinical characteristics and its need for special public health and diagnostic techniques. After decades of relative inattention to these factors, childhood tuberculosis has now grown into an important area of competency for child health programs in low-burden areas, including the United States. The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis is a state of the art clinical reference written and edited by the world's leading experts in childhood tuberculosis. It offers clinicians in any geography or setting practical, evidence-based advice on all aspects of the disease, including its natural history, epidemiology, presentation, treatment, and prevention -- all in a format that synthesizes literature with the clinical experience of the leading authorities in this challenging field. As the need for childhood tuberculosis services in child health programs grows, this handbook provides a new benchmark for practitioners and trainees in pediatrics, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, and public health to better understand this persisting and difficult disease.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190220907
• Artikelnr.: 44390361

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey R. Starke, MD, has been the Director of the Children's Tuberculosis Clinic at Ben Taub General Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital for 30 years. He has published over 110 articles and 40 chapters on childhood tuberculosis. He has served on numerous advisory and guideline groups, and is a former Chairman of the U.S. CDC Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. His wife, Joan Shook, is also a pediatrician and all three of their children are in various stages of medical training. Peter R. Donald, MD, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is active in various tuberculosis research activities focused on anti-tuberculosis drug assessment in adults and children and various aspects of the management and treatment of childhood tuberculosis. He continues to lecture on childhood tuberculosis throughout the world.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* About the editors
* List of Abbreviations
* Contributors
* 1. A Brief History of Childhood Tuberculosis
* Peter R. Donald
* 2. Microbiology and Pathology of Tuberculosis
* Anne-Marie Demers, Andrew C. Whitelaw, Kathleen D. Eisenach
* 3. Immunology of Tuberculosis
* Beate Kampmann, Elizabeth Whittaker
* 4. Natural History of Childhood Tuberculosis
* Ben J. Marais
* 5. Global Epidemiology of Childhood Tuberculosis
* Charalambos Sismanidis, Philille Glaziou, Malgosia Grzemska,
Katherine Floyd, Mario Raviglione
* 6. Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Infection in Children
* Anna M. Mandalakas, Andrew DiNardo
* 7. Microbiologic Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Disease in Children
* Mark P. Nicol, Heather J. Zar
* 8. Radiology of Childhood Tuberculosis
* Savvas Andronikou, Tracy Kilborn
* 9. Diagnosis of Intrathoracic Tuberculosis
* Carlos M. Perez-Velez
* 10. Diagnosis of the Most Common Forms of Extrathoracic Tuberculosis
in Children
* H. Simon Schaaf, Anthony J. Garcia-Prats
* 11. Central Nervous System Tuberculosis in Children
* Ronald van Toorn
* 12. Tuberculosis in Adolescents
* Andrea T. Cruz
* 13. Tuberculosis in Neonates and Infants
* Adrie Bekker
* 14. Tuberculosis in HIV-infected and -Exposed Infants, Children and
Adolescents
* Helena Rabie, Mark F. Cotton
* 15. Antituberculosis Drugs in Children
* Helen McIlleron
* 16. Treatment of Tuberculosis Infection in Children
* Amina Ahmed
* 17. Management of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis in Children
* Soumya Swaminathan, N. Poorana Ganga Devi
* 18. Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in Children
* James Seddon
* 19. Tuberculosis Vaccines: the old and the New
* Kim Connelly Smith, Ian M. Orme, Jeffrey R. Starke
* 20. Mycobacterium bovis [non-BCG] in Children
* Jeffrey R. Starke
* 21. Public Health and Programmatic Issues for Childhood Tuberculosis
* Jeffrey R. Starke
* 22. The Roadmap for Childhood Tuberculosis
* Stephen M. Graham, Anne Detjen
* Index