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  • New Vaccines against Tuberculosis

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 10: New Vaccines against Tuberculosis by Carlos Martín, Fabiana Bigi and Brigitte Gicquel The current vaccine against tuberculosis (TB),…
  • New Diagnostic Methods

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 14: New Diagnostic Methods by Enrico Tortoli and Juan Carlos Palomino 14.1. Introduction The diagnosis of mycobacterial infections remained…
  • Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 17: Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS by Domingo J. Palmero 17.1. Epidemiological background Tuberculosis (TB) - known in the past as…
  • Viviana Ritacco

    December 6, 2022
    Viviana Ritacco, MD, PhD     Viviana Ritacco was born in 1947 in Lujan, Argentina. In 1971 she obtained the…
  • The Basics of Clinical Bacteriology

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 3: The Basics of Clinical Bacteriology by Lucía Barrera 3.1. The tubercle bacillus: a continuous taxon Bacteria of the…
  • Biosafety and Hospital Control

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 11: Biosafety and Hospital Control by Maria Alice Telles and Afranio Kritski 11.1. Biosafety in the hospital 11.1.1. Introduction…
  • Tuberculosis in Children

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 16: Tuberculosis in Children by Nora Morcillo 16.1. Introduction The incidence and prevalence of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) worldwide varies…
  • New developments and Perspectives

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 20: New developments and Perspectives Viviana Ritacco, Sylvia Cardoso Leão and Juan Carlos Palomino 20.1. The scenario "The history…
  • History

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 1: History Sylvia Cardoso Leão and Françoise Portaels Nowhere in these ancient communities of the Eurasian land mass, where…
  • Molecular Evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex

    December 6, 2022
    Chapter 2: Molecular Evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex by Nalin Rastogi and Christophe Sola 2.1. A basic evolutionary scheme…