Pulmonary tuberculosis: diagnosis and treatment
Open Access
- 18 May 2006
- Vol. 332 (7551) , 1194-1197
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.332.7551.1194
Abstract
Introduction Tuberculosis remains a worldwide problem despite well documented, well publicised methods of prevention and cure. Poverty and HIV infection are major reasons for its persistence.1 2 We review the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of tuberculosis. Further reading Seaton A, Seaton D, Leitch AG , eds. Crofton and Douglas's respiratory diseases. 5th ed. Oxford: Blackwells, 2000 Gibson GJ, Geddes DM, Costabel U, Sterk PJ, Corrin B . Respiratory medicine. 3rd ed. London: Elsevier Science, 2003 Davies PDO , ed. Clinical tuberculosis. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 Alfaham M, Evans M , eds. Childhood tuberculosis at the millennium. Welsh Paediatric Journal 2002;17: 61–6. Various papers on tuberculosis: Lancet 2006;367: 877, 878, 903, 926, 938-57This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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