Table of Contents:
Introduction:
The Many Hosts of Mycobacteria:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Mycobacterial Diseases
Part I: Tuberculosis in Humans
1: Introduction and Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex in Humans
2: Comparative Mycobacteriology of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
3: Immunopathogenesis of Tuberculosis in Humans
4: Current Methods for Diagnosis of Human Tuberculosis and Considerations for Global Surveillance
5: Development of Next-generation TB Vaccines: Comparative Approaches in Humans and Animals
6: The Continuing Co-evolution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Homo sapiens
Part II: Tuberculosis in Domesticated and Companion Animal Species
7: The Global Distribution of Mycobacterium bovis
8: Immunopathogenesis of Mycobacterium bovis Infection of Cattle
9: Diagnosis of Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Cattle
10: Vaccination of Cattle Against Tuberculosis
11: Mycobacterium bovis/M. caprae Infection in Goats and Sheep: Introduction, Epidemiology and Control Measures
12: Mycobacterial Infections in Camelids
13: Tuberculosis in Companion Animal Species
Part III: Mycobacterial Infections in Zoo Species
14: Mycobacterial Infections in Elephants
15: Mycobacterial Infections in Other Zoo Animals
Part IV: Tuberculosis in Wildlife
16: Tuberculosis in Badgers (Meles meles)
17: Tuberculosis in Pigs and Wild Boar
18: Australian Brushtail Possum: A Highly Susceptible Host for Mycobacterium bovis
19: Tuberculosis in Wild and Captive Deer
20: Tuberculosis in South African Wildlife: Lions, African Buffalo and Other Species
21: Novel Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex spp. in Group-living African Mammals
Part V: In Vivo Laboratory Models of Tuberculosis
22: Rabbit Model of Mycobacterial Diseases
23: Laboratory Models of Tuberculosis: Guinea Pigs
24: Of Mice and Mycobacteria: Lessons from a Manipulatable Model
25: Non-human Primate Laboratory Models of Tuberculosis
Part VI: Other Mycobacterial Diseases
26: Mycobacterium leprae in Humans
27: Animal Models for Leprosy Research
28: Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Infection, Immunology and Pathology of Livestock
29: Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections