Tuberculosis (TB) - References

SYMPTOMS & TREATMENTS

Citations

  1. Sharma SK, Mohan A (2009). Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases. In RE Rakel, ET Bope, eds., Conn's Current Therapy 2009. pp. 282-290. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.

  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. 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.

Other Works Consulted

  • Akolo C, et al. (2010). Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in HIV infected persons. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (1).

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010). Reported Tuberculosis in the United States, 2009. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/tb/statistics/reports/2009/default.htm.

  • U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2010). Updated guidelines for using interferon gamma release assays to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection-United States, 2010. MMWR, 59(RR-05): 1-25. Available online: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5905a1.htm?s_cid=rr5905a1_e.

  • World Health Organization (2010). Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings. Available online: http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/tb/9789241500708/en.

  • Ziganshina L, Garner P (2009). Tuberculosis (HIV-negative people), search date July 2008. Online version of BMJ Clinical Evidence: http://www.clinicalevidence.com.

By: Healthwise StaffLast Revised: April 15, 2011
Medical Review: E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
R. Steven Tharratt, MD, MPVM, FACP, FCCP - Pulmonology, Critical Care Medicine, Medical Toxicology

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