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Volume 343:1819 December 14, 2000 Number 24
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Tuberculosis: Current concepts and treatment

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Second edition. Edited by Lloyd N. Friedman. 518 pp., illustrated. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 2000. $99.95. ISBN 0-8493-1565-4.

"Ain't gonna make the same mistake again."

— Anonymous, TB Controllers Songbook, 2000

The recent dramatic resurgence of tuberculosis in the United States and many other industrialized countries has sparked an equally dramatic resurgence in scientific interest in this disease. This interest has stimulated the publication of several new textbooks on tuberculosis and has resulted in substantially increased funding for the control of tuberculosis and for research on the disorder, particularly in the United States. The increased funding has yielded a wealth of new knowledge, as well as declining case rates in the United States and many other industrialized countries . . . [Full Text of this Article]




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