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Scanning electron micrograph of M. tuberculosis

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

  • Bynum, Helen. (2012) Spitting Blood. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199542055.[2]
  • Calwell, H. G. & D. H. Craig. (1984) The White Plague in Ulster: A short history of tuberculosis in Northern Ireland. [Belfast]: Ulster Medical Society.
  • Chrétien, Jacques. (1998) Tuberculosis - the Illustrated History of a Disease. Translated by Clare Pierard. Union Internationale Contre la Tuberculose et les.
  • Dormandy, Thomas. (1999) The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. Hambledon Press.[3][4] ISBN 1852851694
  • Ellison, David L. (1994) Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and science at the end of the nineteenth century. Praeger.[5][6] ISBN 0313290059
  • Elwin, Malcolm. (1953) The Life of Llewelyn Powys. London: Macdonald.
  • Ryan, Frank. (1992) Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told. Bromsgrove: Swift.[7] ISBN 1874082006

Scientific papers

Treatment

Drug resistance

  • Reichman, Lee B. & Janice Tanne. (2000) Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis. McGraw-Hill.[8] ISBN 0071359249

References

  1. ^ "Tuberculosis (TB)". World Health Organization. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  2. ^ Horton, Richard (15 November 2012). "Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
  3. ^ Houston, Muiris (1999-06-19). "The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis". BMJ : British Medical Journal. 318 (7199): 1705. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 1116046. PMID 10373196.
  4. ^ Bryder, Linda (2000-04-01). "Reviews". Social History of Medicine. 13 (1): 180–181. doi:10.1093/shm/13.1.180. ISSN 0951-631X.
  5. ^ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/3762
  6. ^ Ellison, D. L. (1994). "Healing tuberculosis in the woods: medicine and science at the end of the nineteenth century". Contributions in Medical Studies (41): 1–201. ISSN 0886-8220. PMID 11639952.
  7. ^ https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10123-002-0080-1
  8. ^ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1122168/