Websites for TB research/bibliography
Bradford, W. Z., J. Koehler, M.D. Cave, P.C. Hopewell, A.L. Reingold, C.B. Agasino, H. El-Hajj, S. Rane, Z. Yang, C.M. Crane, P.M. Small, "Dissemination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis across the San Francisco Bay Area"" Journal of Infectious Disease 1997, 1104-1107.
Bradford, Williamson Z., Jeffrey N. Martin, Arthur L. Reingold, Gisela F. Schecter, Philip C. Hopewell, Peter M. Small, "The changing epidemiology of acquired drug-resistant tuberculosis in San Francisco, USA", The Lancet, Vol 348, October 5, 1996, 928-931.
Brown University TB/HIV Laboratory, online at www.brown.edu/Research/TB-HIV_Lab/index.html
Casper, C., S.P. Singh, S. Rane, C.L. Daley, G.S. Schecter, L.W. Riley, B.N. Kreiswirth, P. M. Small, "Transcontinental transmission of tuberculosis: A molecular epidemiologic assessment", American Journal of Public Health: 1996, 551-553. Study using conventional techniques and DNA fingerprinting to trace a TB strain in New York City to a particular TB strain of a traveling salesman resident in San Francisco.
Centers for Disease Control, "Addressing Emerging Infectious Disease Threats: A Prevention Strategy for the United States", published by National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID), 1994.
Centers for Disease Control, "A Strategic Plan for the Elimination of Tuberculosis in the United States", MMWR 38(S-3); 1-25, April 21, 1989, online at
http://www.cdc.gov/.
Daley, Charles L., Judith A. Hahn, Andrew R. Moss, Philip C. Hopewell, Gisela F. Schecter, "Incidence of Tuberculosis in Injection Drug Users in San Francisco", American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine: 1998, Vol 157, 19-22.
Jasmer, R.M., A. Ponce de Leon, P.C. Hopewell, A.R. Moss, A. Paz, G.F. Schecter, P.M. Small, "Tuberculosis in Mexican-born persons in San Francisco: Reactivation, newly acquired infection and secondary transmission", International Journal of Tuberculosis 1997.
Johns Hopkins University Division of Infectious Diseases, online at
www.hopkins-id.edu/NJMS National Tuberculosis Center, "Epidemiology of TB", online at
www.umdnj.edu/~ntbcweb/history.htm, revised September 26, 1997.
NJMS National Tuberculosis Center (NJMS), "TB Questions and Answers", online at
www.umdnj.edu/~ntbcweb/history.htm, revised January 28, 1998.
Nolan Charles M., "Editorial: Nosocomial Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis--Global Spread of the Third Epidemic", The Journal of Infectious Diseases 1997: Vol 176, 748-751.
Small, Peter M., G. F. Schecter, P.C. Goodman, M.A. Sande, R.E. Chaisson, and P.C. Hopewell, "Treatment of tuberculosis in patients with advanced human immunodeficiency virus infection", New England Journal of Medicine: 324, 289-94. Study of case histories in San Francisco from 1981 to 1988.
Small, P.M., Phillip C. Hopewell, Samir P. Singh, Anthonio Paz, Julie Parsonnet, Delaney C. Ruston, Gisela F. Schecter, Charles L. Daley, Gary K. Schoolnik, "The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in San Francisco: A Population-Based Study Using Conventional and Molecular Methods", New England Journal of Medicine: 330, 1703-1709. Use of DNA fingerprinting along with conventional epidemiologic techniques to trace TB to particular strains.
Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research, online at
http://molepi.stanford.edu/tb.www.htmlThe Acid Fast Club, online at
www.sm.ic.ac.uk/afc/home.htmThe Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, online at
www.nationaltbcenter.edu/The Institute for Genomic Research at
www.tigr.orgThe Integrated Mycobacterial Database, online at
www.biochem.kth.se/MycDB.html
The Sanger Centre at
www.sanger.ac.ukTB Research Materials and Vaccine Testing Contract, online at
www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/microbiology/tb/top.htm
Tubercle and Lung Disease Journal, online at
www.churchillmed.com/journals/TubLungDis/jhome.html
Tuberculosis Research Unit of Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio at
www.cwru.edu/affil/tbru/tbru.html
Villemin, J.A. Etudes sur la tuberculose: preuves rationelles et experimentales de la specificite et de son inoculabilite. Paris: Baillieres, 1868.