Open AccessManagement of Tuberculosis for the Acute Physician
Author(s) -
L.P. Ormerod,
Blackburn Royal Infirmary Physiology
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
acute medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0069
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , epidemiology , ethnic group , risk stratification , disease , intensive care medicine , family medicine , pathology , sociology , anthropology
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.