Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body.[Most infections show no symptoms, in which case it is known as latent tuberculosis. About 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which, if left untreated, kills about half of those affected. Typical symptoms of active TB are a chronic cough with blood-containing mucus, fever, night sweats, and weight loss. It was historically called consumption due to the weight loss.Infection of other organs can cause a wide range of symptoms.Tuberculosis is spread from one person to the next through the air when people who have active TB in their lungs cough, spit, speak, or sneeze.People with latent TB do not spread the disease.Active infection occurs more often in people with HIV/AIDS and in those who smoke.Diagnosis of active TB is based on chest X-rays, as well as microscopic examination and culture of body fluids.Diagnosis of latent TB relies on the tuberculin skin test or blood tests
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface (60 KB)
Components of the Book:
- Chapter 1
Diagnostic utility of GeneXpert MTB/RIF assay versus conventional methods for diagnosis of pulmonary and extra-pulmonary tuberculosis
- Chapter 2
Delay in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in low-and middle-income settings: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Chapter 3
Delay in diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis increases the risk of pulmonary cavitation in pastoralist setting of Ethiopia
- Chapter 4
Current trends and intricacies in the management of HIV-associated pulmonary tuberculosis
- Chapter 5
Pulmonary tuberculosis presenting secondary organizing pneumonia with organized polypoid granulation tissue: case series and review of the literature
- Chapter 6
Tuberculosis contact investigation results among paediatric contacts in low-incidence settings in Finland
- Chapter 7
Of tuberculosis and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections – a comparative analysis of epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment
- Chapter 8
The association between tuberculosis and the development of insulin resistance in adults with pulmonary tuberculosis in the Western sub-district of the Cape Metropole region, South Africa: a combined cross-sectional, cohort study
- Chapter 9
Prevalence of drug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in India: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Chapter 10
Pulmonary restriction predicts long‑term pulmonary impairment in people with HIV and tuberculosis
- Chapter 11
Immune responses in the treatment of drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis with phenylbutyrate and vitamin D3 as host directed therapy
- Chapter 12
Large-scale genomic analysis shows association between homoplastic genetic variation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis genes and meningeal or pulmonary tuberculosis
- Chapter 13
Post-inhaled corticosteroid pulmonary tuberculosis and pneumonia increases lung cancer in patients with COPD
- Chapter 14
Machine learning reveals that Mycobacterium tuberculosis genotypes and anatomic disease site impacts drug resistance and disease transmission among patients with proven extra-pulmonary tuberculosis
- Chapter 15
The association between silica exposure, silicosis and tuberculosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Readership:
Students, academics, teachers and other people attending or interested in Advances in Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Eun Jin Kim, Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, Daegu Catholic University School of Medicine, South Korea
Antti Kontturi, Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
Selvakumar Subbian, Public Health Research Institute, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, United States
Reinout van Crevel, Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Sara C. Auld, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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