Main description:

Tuberculosis remains one of the most prevalent, deadly, and underdiagnosed infectious diseases in the world. In children, this burden is doubly problematic because of the disease's unique clinical characteristics and its need for special public health and diagnostic techniques. After decades of relative inattention to these factors, childhood tuberculosis has now grown into an important area of competency for child health programs in low-burden areas, including the
United States.

The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Tuberculosis is a state-of-the-art clinical reference written and edited by the world's leading experts in childhood tuberculosis. It offers clinicians in any geography or setting practical, evidence-based advice on all aspects of the disease, including its natural history, epidemiology, presentation, treatment, and prevention - all in a format that synthesizes literature with the clinical experience of the leading authorities in this challenging
field.

As the need for childhood tuberculosis services in child health programs grows, this handbook provides a new benchmark for practitioners and trainees in pediatrics, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, and public health to better understand this persisting and difficult disease.

Contents:

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