Tuberculosis : laboratory diagnosis and treatment strategies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	McHugh, Timothy D. (Timothy Daniel) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
Series:	Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 21.
Subjects:	Tuberculosis > diagnosis. Antitubercular Agents. Drug Discovery. Molecular Diagnostic Techniques. Tuberculosis > Diagnosis. Tuberculosis > Treatment. Diagnosis of Human Disease, (New March 2000) Host Resistance and Immunity. Pesticide and Drug Resistance. Pesticides and Drugs; Control, (New March 2000) Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans, (New March 2000) Techniques and Methodology. Antituberculous agents. Diagnostic techniques. Drug development. Drug resistance. Drug therapy. Human diseases. Immunization. Laboratory diagnosis. Man. Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. Vaccination. Vaccine development. Vaccines. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Timothy McHugh
Improving upon sputum smear microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis in resource-poor settings / Andrew Ramsay, Karen R Steingart, and Madhukar Pai
Molecular diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis / Anna Bateson, Kate Reddington, and Justin O'Grady
Improving on the LJ slope : automated liquid culture / Miguel Viveiros, Diana Machado, Isabel Couto and Leonard Amaral
Interferon gamma release assays in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection / Ajit Lalvani, Manish Pareek
Measuring TB immune responses in the lung : the correct target? / Ronan Breen, Marc Lipman
Sniffing out TB / Ruth McNerney, Claire Turner
Role of phenotypic methods for drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis isolates in the era of MDR and XDR epidemics / Leonid Heifets
Genotypic measures of antibiotic susceptibility / Vanessa Mathys, Barun Mathema, and Pablo Bifani
Molecular tools for fast identification of resistance and characterization of MDR/XDR-TB / Dick van Soolingen
Monitoring therapy by bacterial load / Denise M. O'Sullivan
Modelling responses to tuberculosis treatment / G. R. Davies
Measuring gene expression by quantitative PCR (qPCR) / Isobella Honeyborne
Transcriptomic approaches to mapping responses to drug therapy for tuberculosis / Simon J. Waddell, Philip D. Butcher
Mycobacterial lipid bodies and resuscitation-promoting factor dependency as potential biomarkers of response to chemotherapy / N. J. Garton, G. V. Mukamoloval, and M. R. Barer
Clinical trials in tuberculosis chemotherapy : the challenges / Stephen H. Gillespie
The identification of 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylates (ATCs) as a new class of TB agent : a lesson in HIT identification / Geoff Coxon
Rifamycins revisited / Martin J. Boeree
Therapy of the XDR-TB patients with thioridazine :an old drug with new applications / Leonard Amaral, Marta Martins , Isabel Couto and Miguel Viveiros
Vaccines for tuberculosis / Helen McShane.