Tuberculosis is a disease that is both preventable and treatable, yet it is far from being a disease of the past. The World Health Organization reported that 3.8 million new cases of active TB were diagnosed worldwide in 1998, and this figure probably represents less than half the true number of new cases. Although overall TB rates in Canada are as low as almost anywhere in the world, the disease continues to occur with disturbing frequency in the aboriginal population and among immigrants from high-prevalence countries, as well as in other high-risk groups. Series editor Anne Fanning, formerly of the University of Alberta and now working with the WHO in Geneva, has brought together leading experts in TB diagnosis and management to examine the disease in a Canadian context.

The series is dedicated to the memory of the late Dr. Stefan Grzybowski, one of Canada's greatest contributors to our understanding of tuberculosis and its historical and global import.

See also: Drug-resistant tuberculosis [Review]
Treating TB in the 1950s [Letter]

1. Introduction [HTML / PDF]
2. History of the disease in Canada [HTML / PDF]
3. Epidemiology of the disease in Canada [HTML / PDF]
4. Pulmonary disease [HTML / PDF]
5. Pediatric disease [HTML / PDF]
6. Extrapulmonary disease [HTML / PDF]
7. Laboratory aspects of diagnosis [HTML / PDF]
8. The disease in association with HIV infection [HTML / PDF]
9. Treatment [HTML / PDF]
10. Prevention [HTML / PDF]
11. Nosocomial disease [HTML / PDF]
12. Global disease and the role of international collaboration [HTML / PDF]
13. Control of the disease among aboriginal people in Canada [HTML / PDF]