Handbook of Global Tuberculosis Control

: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Treatment Management

25.     Clinical diagnosis of TB: history, current practices, usefulness, defectiveness, and urgent need for new tools



26.     Current treatment options: history, current practices, effectiveness, limitations, cost of the medicine, access to the medicine, common supplier of the medicine, various market and government supplies, public health services for DOT, and the urgent need for improvement

27.     A case study: an historic review of DOT in China and future projections

28.     Drug resistant TB; various causes of treatment failures, identification of drug resistant TB, prognosis and care for drug resistant TB patients, spread and increase of drug resistant TB, threats of drug resistant TB epidemics, future worst and best case scenarios, and the urgent need for new treatment medicines.

29.     A case study: dealing with multiple drug resistant TB in China: current practices and future management strategies

30.     Treating TB with HIV co-infections and other immune deficiency diseases: difficulties in detecting TB in HIV infected populations, increasing treatment problems associated with ARV treatment with TB co-infections, active TB resulting from organ transplant and other immune suppression, and etc. 31.     A case study: major complications and concomitant disease, Surgery and operative indications, Bronchoscopy and stent, Intensive Care and Rescue of critical illnesses.



32.     New TB diagnosis tool for early detection

33.     New TB treatment medicine research and development

34.     A case study: the history and future projection of clinical comparative testing of various TB medical treatment options in China

Part III: Prevention

35.     BCG immunization: historical efficacy studies, current global usage of BCG immunization, current immunization coverage, estimated efficacies in different developing countries, the risk and benefit analysis of not using BCG as a vaccine in the US and other developed countries, future perspectives, and the urgent need for more effective vaccines

36.     A case study: retrospective efficacy evaluation of BCG immunization (comparing TB incidences between comparable populations who received the vaccine and who missed vaccination)

37.     Latent infections: latent versus active TB, current inability for early detection, risk factors of activating latent infections, examples of local and regional outbreaks, geographic distribution of global latent infections, potential impact on TB control management, and future projections.38.     Outbreak controls: the most desirable public health responses, identifying and reporting emerging outbreaks, reports, media coverage policies, isolation, detection, medical treatment options, community watches, effective post-exposure surveillance, and etc.



39.     Prophylactic usage of TB treatment medicine to protect newborns and house hold close contacts: practices, effectiveness, problems, and recommendations. Circumstances where a mandatory test is requested: militaries, health care workers, hospital works, students, employment requirement, immigrants, and etc.

40.     A case study: Beijing-strategic plan and implementation of prophylactic usage of TB treatment41.     A case study: US-recommended medical practices in prophylactic usage of TB treatment for household close contact groups 



42.     A case study: Pakistan: society awareness and media coverage for TB prevention and treatment)

43.     New TB Vaccine research and development

Part IV: Surveillance

44.     Global TB surveillance system:

45.     Methodology of estimation of TB incidence and mortality

46.     TB Socioeconomics: poverty, migration, society changes

47.     Molecular epidemiology

48.     A Case study: Korea: Implementation of nationwide TB epidemiology survey .

49.     A Case study : China Web-based TB reporting system

50.     A Case study: Japan (same content as in China for direct comparisons)