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Previous Volume 334:1752 June 27, 1996 Number 26

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Edited by William N. Rom and Stuart M. Garay. 1002 pp., illustrated. Boston, Little, Brown, 1996. $179.95. ISBN 0-316-75574-5.

After a progressive decline that began in the 19th century, the incidence of tuberculosis in the United States began to climb again in the mid-1980s. This resurgence of tuberculosis was due to a number of factors, including the epidemic of HIV infection, homelessness in urban areas, and immigration from countries with a high prevalence of the disease. Unfortunately, the public health infrastructure needed to deal with this resurgence had deteriorated badly. To complicate matters further, there was now a whole generation of physicians with little training or experience in the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis. Biomedical research on the disease . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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