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Author:   Jeffrey R. Starke (Director, Director, Children's Tuberculosis Clinic, Ben Taub General Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital) ,  Peter R. Donald (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Stellenbosch University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 24.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 16.80cm
Weight:   0.862kg
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9780190695316

ISBN 10:   0190695315
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   29 June 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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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.

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