Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Disease : A Comprehensive Approach to Diagnosis and Management / edited by David E. Griffith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Griffith, David E., editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Medicine (Springer-11650)

Respiratory Medicine,. 2197-7372

Respiratory Medicine, 2197-7372

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Respiratory organs--Diseases.

Respiratory organs.

Emerging infectious diseases.

Medicine.

Pneumology/Respiratory System.

Infectious Diseases.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Local Subjects:

Pneumology/Respiratory System.

Infectious Diseases.

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 515 pages) : 85 illustrations, 45 illustrations in color.

Edition:

First edition 2019.

Contained In:

Springer eBooks

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana, 2019.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book is a comprehensive and authoritative source on nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) pathogens and diseases and their appropriate management, with a focus on lung disease. NTM diseases, especially lung diseases, are increasing in prevalence in the U.S. and internationally with concomitant growing interest in a broad section of the medical community. Often merely included in coverage of tuberculosis, many aspects of NTM organisms and diseases are actually very different than TB. These differences are not intuitive or trivial and frequently result in suboptimal management of NTM patients. This book addresses these gaps in the literature with chapters on microbiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, the various diseases that can stem from NTM, and their particular management. There is also coverage on prevention and NTM as a public health problem. For pulmonologists and infectious disease physicians, this is the definitive resource on nontuberculous mycobacteria.

Contents:

Introduction and Historical Perspective on NTM Disease

The Modern Microbiology Laboratory and Its Role in NTM Disease

Mechanisms of NTM Drug Resistance

Pathophysiology of NTM Lung Disease

Environmental Niches for NTM and Their Clinical Significance

Genetic and Acquired Immune Dysfunction and NTM Disease

United States Epidemiology of NTM Lung Disease

Global Epidemiology of NTM Lung Disease

Diagnosis of NTM Lung Disease

NTM Lung Disease, General Management Principles

Mycobacterium avium Complex Lung Disease

Mycobacterium kansasii Lung Disease

Other Slowly Growing Mycobacteria and Lung Disease

Mycobacterium abscessus Subspecies Lung Disease

Other Rapidly Growing Mycobacteria Lung Disease

Surgical Management of NTM Infections

Management of Lung Comorbidities in NTM Patients

Extrapulmonary NTM Disease.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-319-93473-0

9783319934730

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.