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  • Authors/Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations and acronyms
  • Chapter 1: Introduction and epidemiology
  • Chapter 2: Clinical presentation
  • Chapter 3: Diagnostic investigations
    • 3.1 Sputum smear microscopy
    • 3.2 Culture
    • 3.3 Phenotypic drug susceptibility tests (DST)
    • 3.4 Molecular techniques
    • 3.5 Summary of bacteriological examinations
    • 3.6 Indications for DST
    • 3.7 Radiology
    • 3.8 Tuberculin skin test (TST)
    • 3.9 Interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs)
    • 3.10 Biopsies, laboratory tests on body fluids and other biological tests
  • Chapter 4: Diagnostic algorithms for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in adults and adolescents
  • Chapter 5: Diagnosis of tuberculosis in children
  • Chapter 6: Intensive case finding in HIV-infected individuals
  • Chapter 7: Case definitions for registration
  • Chapter 8: Anti-TB drugs and treatment regimens
  • Chapter 9: Treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis
  • Chapter 10: Treatment of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB)
  • Chapter 11: Treatment of mono- and poly-drug resistant tuberculosis (PDR-TB)
  • Chapter 12: Co-management and treatment of HIV in TB disease
  • Chapter 13: Adherence to tuberculosis treatment
  • Chapter 14: Tuberculosis infection control
  • Chapter 15: Follow-up of staff exposed to tuberculosis
  • Chapter 16: Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection
  • Chapter 17: Monitoring and evaluation
  • Appendices

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    • 3.1 Sputum smear microscopy
    • 3.2 Culture
    • 3.3 Phenotypic drug susceptibility tests (DST)
    • 3.4 Molecular techniques
    • 3.5 Summary of bacteriological examinations
    • 3.6 Indications for DST
    • 3.7 Radiology
    • 3.8 Tuberculin skin test (TST)
    • 3.9 Interferon gamma release assays (IGRAs)
    • 3.10 Biopsies, laboratory tests on body fluids and other biological tests

     

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