This concise clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of tuberculosis and
reviews the latest guidelines treatment options clinical trials and management of this
disease. Handbook of Tuberculosis is a well-rounded book written by renowned researchers at the
Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research. The easily accessible text offers infectious
disease specialists pulmonologists and other healthcare workers an excellent quick reference
tool with full color tables and figures enhancing the text further. Tuberculosis is a
life-threatening lung infection that affects people of all ages. It is the second biggest cause
of death from infectious diseases and is the most common cause of death amongst patients with
HIV AIDS. Education on the recognition of tuberculosis and the subsequent treatment of the
disease is empirical to the prevention of wide-spread resistance. There is a lack of knowledge
on how to treat coinfected and comorbid patients this handbook offers the latest medical
guidance and treatment options to equip physicians to manage such patients.
