Pulmonary Tuberculosis
1Gama Filho University, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
3Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
4Centro de Referência Professor Helio Fraga, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Description
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health issue worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that in 2010, there were 8.8 million incident cases of TB, 1.1 million deaths from TB among HIV-negative people and an additional 0.35 million deaths from HIV-associated TB. In recent years, after a century of stagnation, new diagnostic technologies have been developed to detect active and latent TB. They are being evaluated for accuracy and cost effectiveness in many countries. Likewise, new drugs and regimens to treat active and latent TB are being evaluated. Without an effort to prevent, diagnose, and treat active cases, the world will not attain the millennium goal of eradicating TB until 2050.
This special issue of the journal focuses on the scientific and clinical advances in the immune aspects, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of latent and active TB as well as operational and translational research. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Immune response to human mycobacterial disease
- Social determinants of TB
- Biomarkers of latent TB, risk for developing active TB and cure of infection
- Diagnostic tests for active and latent TB
- Treatment of latent TB infection
- Treatment of active TB
- Advances in TB/HIV coinfection
- Vaccines
- Cost effectiveness and incorporation of new technologies for diagnosing and treating latent and active TB
- Directly observed therapy, access to health services, barriers to the health system
- Case-finding strategies for active TB
- TB in vulnerable populations (just below social determinants of TB)
- XDR epidemiology, treatment including surgery
Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/pm/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable: