Challenges and Advances in Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Lung Diseases

• Other Authors: Szturmowicz, Monika (Editor), Augustynowicz-Kopeć, Ewa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Gordonia bronchialis; microbiological diagnostics; respiratory infection; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; drug resistance; XDR-tuberculosis; household TB transmission; tuberculous pericarditis; extrapulmonary tuberculosis; pericarditis; constrictive pericarditis; tuberculosis; abscess; scrofula; head and neck; epiglottis; larynx; airway; mycobacteria; surgical drainage; FluoroType MTBDR; molecular; isoniazid; rifampin; bacillus Calmette-Guerin; bladder cancer immunotherapy; BCGosis; BCG pulmonary infection; severe respiratory insufficiency; nontuberculous mycobacterium; lung cancer; surgery; nontuberculous mycobacteria; cystic fibrosis; chest computed tomography; Beijing-TB; Beijing-like genotype; Mycobacterium chimaera; nontuberculous mycobacterial disease; silicosis; extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; COVID-19 pandemic; spoligotyping; Poland; human immunodeficiency virus; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; chest imaging; rapidly growing mycobacteria; antimicrobial resistance; broth microdilution; minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC)
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The Special Issue of the journal Diagnostics entitled "Challenges and Advances in Tuberculosis and Mycobacterial Lung Diseases" encompasses research articles, case presentations, and literature reviews concerning the epidemiology, medical surveillance, as well as diagnostic and therapeuti...