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Previous Volume 332:1106-1109 April 20, 1995 Number 16

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Edited by P.D.O. Davies. 426 pp., illustrated. New York, Chapman & Hall, 1994. $99.95. ISBN 0-412-48630-X.
Edited by Lloyd N. Friedman. 366 pp., illustrated. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 1994. $179.95. ISBN 0-8493-4825-0.
Edited by Barry R. Bloom. 637 pp., illustrated. Washington, D.C., ASM Press, 1994. $72. ISBN 1-55581-072-1.

Imagine a global emergency in the form of a reemerging disease that is infectious; often fatal; increasingly resistant to antimicrobial agents; associated with drug use, AIDS, and alcohol abuse; common among immigrants and inner-city homeless people; and acquired merely by breathing in the deadly airborne pathogen. These are the ingredients of an epic saga with sensationalist elements in which the public responds with panic, discrimination, prejudice, and stigmatization to those with disease. The disease that fits this description is tuberculosis, declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993.

Acid-fast bacilli have been found in a Peruvian . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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