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This is a bibliography of tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that generally affects the lungs. As of 2018, the World Health Organization estimated that 25% of the world's population was infected with the latent form of the disease. In its active form, it is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide.[1]

This bibliography is of non-fiction works about TB in human beings covering general works, key scientific papers, treatment methods and drug resistance.

General works

  • Chrétien, Jacques. (1998) Tuberculosis - the Illustrated History of a Disease. Translated by Clare Pierard
  • Dormandy, Thomas. (1999) The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
  • Ellison, David L. (1994) Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and science at the end of the nineteenth century
  • Elwin, Malcolm. (1953) The Life of Llewelyn Powys
  • Ryan, Frank. (1992) Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told

Scientific papers

Treatment

Drug resistance

  • Reichman, Lee B. & Janice Tanne. (2000) Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis
  1. ^ "Tuberculosis (TB)". World Health Organization. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.