Tuberculosis, An Issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine Volume 30-4

To be published in time for World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, this focuses on the following topics: Global Burden and Epidemiology of TB; MDR-TB and XDR-TB in the West; MDR and XDR-TB in Africa and South America; Antiretrovial Therapy in the Control of TB; Newer TB Diagnostics; Advances in Imaging for Tuberculosis; Update on TB of the Central Nervous System; Current Clinical TB Drug Trials and Newer Anti-TB Drug Pipelines; Advances in Immunotherapy for TB Treatment; Biomarkers of Disease Activity, Cure, and Relapse in TB; Immune Reconstitution Syndrome and TB Unmasking; Progress and Advances in TB Vaccine Development; and Chemoprophylaxis for TB and Screen for TB.