Textbook of Tuberculosis and Nontuberculousis Mycobacterial Diseases 3rd Edition

This edition has several new contributors; all of them are leading  authorities, from various parts of the world. All the chapters have  been thoroughly re-written and updated; many of them are by new but  renowned contributors. Several new high quality clinical, radiographic  images, gross pathology specimen photographs, and photomicrographs have  been included in this edition for the readers’ convenience. This edition  documents the rapid advances that have occurred at a blistering pace in  TB diagnosis, universal drug-susceptibility testing [DST] and treatment  of dug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB, including multidrug-resistant  and extensively drug-resistant TB [M/XDR-TB], programmatic management  of drug-resistant TB, public-private mix, the ENGAGE-TB approach, and  END TB strategy, among others. The present edition includes recent  classification of drugs and drug combinations including recent  generation quinolones, bedaquiline and linezolid used in treating  M/XDR-TB and a chapter detailing the latest developments in the field of  laboratory diagnosis and management of NTM diseases.