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Understanding Tuberculosis - Global Experiences and Innovative Approaches to the Diagnosis

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Pere-Joan Cardona
Pere-Joan Cardona

Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol,
Spain

Published15 February 2012

Doi10.5772/1483

ISBN978-953-307-938-7

eBook (PDF) ISBN978-953-51-4360-4

Copyright year2012

Number of pages564

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Table of Contents

Open access  chapters

1. Clinical Laboratory Diagnostics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

By N. Esther Babady and Nancy L. Wengenack

18,201
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3. Tuberculosis is Still a Major Challenge in Africa

By Simeon I.B. Cadmus, Osman El Tayeb and Dick van Soolingen

2,486
8,387
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7. Immunologic Diagnosis of Neurotuberculosis

By Iacob Simona Alexandra, Banica Dorina, Iacob Diana Gabriela, Panaitescu Eugenia, Radu Irina and Cojocaru Manole

3,225
11. New Diagnostics for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

By Michaela Lucas, Andrew Lucas and Silvana Gaudieri

2,720
12. Nanodiagnostics for Tuberculosis

By Bruno Veigas, Gonçalo Doria and Pedro V. Baptista

4,343
6
15. Molecular Imaging in TB: From the Bench to the Clinic

By Nuria Andreu, Paul T. Elkington and Siouxsie Wiles

3,015
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16. Data Mining Techniques in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis

By T. Asha, S. Natarajan and K. N. B. Murthy

3,998
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17. Immunological Diagnosis of Active and Latent TB

By Beata Shiratori, Hiroki Saitoh, Umme Ruman Siddiqi, Jingge Zhao, Haorile Chagan-Yasutan, Motoki Usuzawa, Chie Nakajima, Yasuhiko Suzuki and Toshio Hattori

6,700
18. Immune Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Through Novel Technologies

By Miguel A. Arroyo-Ornelas, Ma. Concepción Arenas-Arrocena, Horacio V. Estrada, Victor M. Castaño and Luz M. López-Marín

2,917
19. Exosomes: New Tuberculosis Biomarkers – Prospects From the Bench to the Clinic

By Nicole A. Kruh-Garcia, Jeff S. Schorey and Karen M. Dobos

4,855
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20. Molecular Techniques for Identification of Species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex: The use of Multiplex PCR and an Adapted HPLC Method for Identification of Mycobacterium bovis and Diagnosis of Bovine Tuberculosis

By Eduardo Eustáquio de Souza Figueiredo, Carlos Adam Conte Júnior, Leone Vinícius Furlanetto, Flávia Galindo Silvestre Silva, Rafael Silva Duarte, Joab Trajano Silva, Walter Lilenbaum and Vânia Margaret Flosi Paschoalin

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21. Survey and Molecular Characterization of Drug- Resistant M. tuberculosis Clinical Isolates from Zunyi, Guizhou Province of China

By Ling Chen, Hong Zhang, Jian-Yong Zhang, Na-Na Li, Mei Liu, Zhao-Jing Zong, Jian-Hua Wang and Sheng-Lan Wang

2,822
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25. Health Interventions to Improve the Medication Efficacy in Tuberculosis Treatment

By Jean Leandro dos Santos, Chung Man Chin, Ednir de Oliveira Vizioli, Fernando Rogério Pavan and Luiz Antonio Dutra

2,906

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