Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

Tuberculosis is a communicable disease caused by the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex, which includes Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium africanum, both primarily from humans, and Mycobacterium bovis from cattle.

Read Online PDF

Guidelines For the Control of Tuberculosis

Globally, every year, almost 9 million people develop tuberculosis and 3 million people die from the disease. More people are dying of tuberculosis today than ever before. Almost one third of the global total of infectious cases is detected in the Western Pacific Region, where the number of cases has almost doubled in the last decade to 900 000 cases.

Read Online PDF

Tuberculosis 2007

Tuberculosis 2007 is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of research, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis.

Editor Juan Carlos Palomino, Sylvia Cardoso Leão,Viviana Ritacco

Read Online (pdf)