Tuberculosis of spine: Research evidence to treatment guidelines

Latent tuberculosis: revised treatment guidelines.

ing to 1999 estimates, 1.86 billion people — one third of the world’s population — are infected with tuberculosis. Most people with primary tuberculosis (TB) do not have signs or symptoms and may not know that they are infected. Their immune systems contain the tubercle bacilli in oxygen-deprived small granulomas, where the bacilli lie dormant for years. Following primary infection, the lifetim...

Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines for Multidisciplinary Spine Care Diagnosis and Treatment of Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

Treatment of Tuberculosis WHO Guidelines 2010

The new WHO guidelines for the treatment on Tuberculosis (4th edition) has come out in 2010 with several important changes from the previous guideline published in 2003.1 Major progress in global TB control follows the wide spread implementation of DOTs strategy. In 2006 stop TB strategy was launched with the objective of (i) universal access to patient centred treatment and protection of popul...

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...

BHIVA treatment guidelines for tuberculosis (TB)/HIV

AL Pozniak, RF Miller, MCI Lipman, AR Freedman, LP Ormerod, MA Johnson, S Collins and SB Lucas, on behalf of the BHIVA Guidelines Writing Committee Chelsea and Westminster NHS Healthcare Trust, London, UK, Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK, Royal F...