Tuberculosis (TB) - References

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Citations

  1. Lahart CJ (2005). Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. In RE Rakel, ET Bope, eds., Conn's Current Therapy 2005. pp. 315–321. Philadelphia: Elsevier Saunders.

  2. Ludvigsson JF, et al. (2007). Coeliac disease and risk of tuberculosis: A population based cohort study. Thorax, 62(1): 23–28.

  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005). Guidelines for using the QuantiFERON®-TB test for diagnosing latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. MMWR, 54(RR-15): 49–55.

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2002). CDC's Response to Ending Neglect: The Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

  5. Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (2005). Questions and Answers About TB. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/faqs/qa.htm.

  6. American Thoracic Society, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Infectious Diseases Society of America (2003). Treatment of tuberculosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 167(4): 603–662.

  7. Fitzgerald D, Haas DW (2005). Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In GL Mandell et al., eds., Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 6th ed., pp. 2852–2886. Philadelphia: Elsevier.

Other Works Consulted

  • Gelband H (2006). Regimens of less than six months for treating tuberculosis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1). Oxford: Update Software.

  • Wilkinson D (2003). Drugs for preventing tuberculosis in HIV infected persons. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1). Oxford: Update Software.

  • Ziganshina L, Garner P (2006). Tuberculosis, search date July 2005. Online version of Clinical Evidence (15): 1–15.

Medical Review:E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Alfred A. Lardizabal, MD - Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine/Tuberculosis
Last Updated: 05/16/2007

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