Editors:

Stewart T. Cole
Kathleen Davis Eisenach
David N. McMurray
William R. Jacobs, Jr.

Date of publication:

2005

Published by:

American Society for Microbiology

ARC Catalog Number:

HC4.23.C6

Description:

The increasing global health burden of tuberculosis (TB) has resulted primarily from widespread poverty and social inequality and has been compounded by the growing AIDS epidemic and by the emergence of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. Despite this gloomy outlook, there is reason for hope that these trends can be reversed.

The hope comes from a growing body of new knowledge about the disease. This book seeks to bring together the latest developments in many areas of TB research to provide the reader with the state-of-the-art.