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Management of Tuberculosis for the Acute Physician

Author(s) -

L.P. Ormerod

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

acute medicine journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1747-4892

pISSN - 1747-4884

DOI - 10.52964/amja.0069

Subject(s) - tuberculosis , epidemiology , ethnic group , medicine , disease , intensive care medicine , risk stratification , family medicine , pathology , political science , law

Tuberculosis is increasing world-wide and also in England and Wales, where there are marked geographical and ethnic variations. Acute physicians should be aware of this, and also of the variable manifestations of this multisystem disease, as well as current epidemiology which informs clinical risk stratification. Treatment is highly evidence based, and bacteriological confirmation should be sought whenever possible, partly because of the current level of drug resistance.

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