This textbook covers the full spectrum of tuberculosis-related topics in a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow, readily accessible format. Filling a significant gap in tuberculosis literature, it addresses tuberculosis sensu latu, mirroring the content of the London Queen Mary University tuberculosis Diploma.

Covering all aspects related to this condition, from prevention, diagnosis and treatment to public and global health, the book provides a broad overview of tuberculosis management. Further, it includes a wealth of case studies and exercises, making it an essential guide for all staff involved in tuberculosis management.

Written by an international and interdisciplinary panel of experts, the book appeals to a broad readership including students, postdoctoral fellows, clinicians, researchers, and nurses, as well as public health officers working in tuberculosis control programs.

Part 1. Introduction

Chapter 1. History of Tuberculosis
Chapter 2. Mycobacterium tuberculosis: the organism, genomics and evolution
Chapter 3. Pathogenesis and immunology of TB
Chapter 4. Basic and descriptive epidemiology of TB
Chapter 5. TB WHO recommended strategies and Global Health perspectives (and exercise/country examples)
Part 2. Prevention
Chapter 6. Vaccines
Chapter 7. Latent TB infection diagnosis and treatment
Chapter 8. Infection Control (and exercise). Part 3. Diagnosis
Chapter 9. TB Clinical presentation and differential diagnosis
 Chapter 10. Laboratory diagnosis of TB (including MDR)
 Chapter 11. Radiology in the diagnosis of TB - How to read a chest x-ray
IV. Treatment
Chapter 12. Rationale for chemotherapy (and exercise)
Chapter 13. Anti-TB drugs and adverse events
Chapter 14. Treatment of drug-susceptible TB
Chapter 15. Surgery and TB
Chapter 16. How to design the regimen for drug-resistant TB (and clinicalcases)
Chapter 17. The shorter regimen for MDR-TB
Chapter 18. Monitoring treatment: clinical and programmatic approach for TB and DR-TB
Chapter 19. Adherence
Chapter 20. TB Patient-centred care
Part 5. Risk factors, risk groups, challenges
Chapter 21. TB, alcohol, smoking and diabetes. Chapter 22. TB and prisons
Chapter 23. TB and migration
Chapter 24. The TB/HIV association
Chapter 25. Childhood TB
Chapter 26. Tuberculosis and women (risk factors, pregnancy, access to services and gender issues)
Chapter 27. TB in the elderly
Chapter 28. Extra-pulmonary TB
Chapter 29. Renal and hepatic failure and tuberculosis
Chapter 30. TB Rehabilitation and palliative care
Chapter 31. Post TB infections
Part 6. Public Health
Chapter 32. The national TB programme: role and functions (and exercise)
Chapter 33. National TB Strategic Planning (and exercise)
Chapter 34. Active case finding and hard-to-reach TB groups
Chapter 35. Managing TB outbreaks in low-incidence settings (and exercise)
Part 7. Global Health
Chapter 36. The global TB burden
Chapter 37. A multi-sectorial approach to tuberculosis control and elimination in the era of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Chapter 38. "One Health" approach to zoonotic tuberculosis. The burden of zoonotic tuberculosis in the world
Chapter 39. Health systems and TB control
Chapter 40. The global and individual economics of TB
Part 8. Research
Chapter 41. An overview of research priorities in TB
Chapter 42. Priority areas for TB vaccines
Chapter 43. Priority areas for TB diagnosis
Chapter 44. Priority areas for latent infection
Chapter 45. Priority areas for TB treatment
Chapter 46. Operational Research.