Tuberculosis : laboratory diagnosis and treatment strategies /
Tuberculosis is a global health threat and the unique features of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and emergence of drug-resistant strains highlight the challenge it presents. Covering a wealth of state-of-the-art knowledge from active international experts, this book captures the latest developments in t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire :
CABI,
[2013]
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| Series: | Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ;
21. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Improving upon sputum smear microscopy for diagnosis of tuberculosis in resource-poor settings
- Molecular diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis
- Improving on the LJ slope : automated liquid culture
- Interferon-gamma release assays in the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection
- Measuring tuberculosis immune responses in the lung : the correct target?
- Sniffing out tuberculosis-- Role of phenotypic methods for drug susceptibility testing of M. tuberculosis isolates in the era of MDR and XDR epidemics
- Genotypic measures of antibiotic susceptibility
- Molecular tools for fast identification of resistance and characterization of MDR/XDR-TB
- Monitoring therapy by bacterial load
- Modelling responses to tuberculosis treatment
- Measuring gene expression by quantitative PCR (qPCR)
- Transcriptomic approaches to mapping responses to drug therapy for tuberculosis
- Mycobacterial lipid bodies and resuscitation-promoting factor dependency as potential biomarkers of response to chemotherapy
- Clinical trials in tuberculosis chemotherapy : the challenges
- The identification of 2-aminothiazole-4-carboxylates (ATCs) as a new class of tuberculosis agent : a lesson in "HIT" identification
- Rifamycins revisited
- Therapy of the XDR-TB patient with thioridazine: an old drug with new applications
- Vaccines for tuberculosis