Global Tuberculosis Diagnostics:. Have we hit the target?

      Аннотация: Tuberculosis (TB) deserves attention for early diagnosis due to its infectious nature and the associated morbidity and mortality. This book elucidates TB diagnosis across the entire disease spectrum which is not elaborated by the books available in the market. The treatise also delineates about the market scenario for TB diagnostics, diagnostic tests in the pipeline as well as the novel technologies currently explored for diagnosis which adds interest to this field. Further, it talks about the tests which are approved and those that are not, implicating the wise selection of tests for the TB community. The book concludes with lacunae in the current diagnostic landscape and the ideas to explore the possibilities for obliterating it. This compendium will cater to the TB community from patients to health care workers, researchers, healthcare industries, policy makers and the like related to healthcare.

Ключевые слова: Tuberculosis; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; diagnostics; smear microscopy; culture; NAAT; multi drug-resistance; latent infection; extra-pulmonary TB