Bibliography of tuberculosis

Scanning electron micrograph of M. tuberculosis

This is a bibliography of tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that generally affects the lungs. As of 2018, the World Health Organization estimated that 25% of the world's population was infected with the latent form of the disease. In its active form, it is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. ^[1]

This bibliography is of non-fiction works about TB in human beings. It covers general works, key scientific papers, treatment methods and drug resistance.

General works

• Bynum, Helen. (2012) Spitting Blood. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0199542055. ^[2]
• Calwell, H. G. & D. H. Craig. (1984) The White Plague in Ulster: A short history of tuberculosis in Northern Ireland. [Belfast]: Ulster Medical Society.
• Chrétien, Jacques. (1998) Tuberculosis - the Illustrated History of a Disease. Translated by Clare Pierard. Union Internationale Contre la Tuberculose et les.
• Dormandy, Thomas. (1999) The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis. Hambledon Press. ^{[3] [4]} ISBN   1852851694
• Ellison, David L. (1994) Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and science at the end of the nineteenth century. Praeger. ^{[5] [6]} ISBN   0313290059
• Elwin, Malcolm. (1953) The Life of Llewelyn Powys. London: Macdonald.
• Ryan, Frank. (1992) Tuberculosis: The Greatest Story Never Told. Bromsgrove: Swift. ^[7] ISBN   1874082006
• Vidya Krishnan, (2022), Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped our History, PublicAffairs, ISBN 9781541768468 ^[8]
• Green, John (2025). Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (1st ed.). New York: Penguin Young Readers Group. ISBN   978-0-525-42605-9.

Drug resistance

• Reichman, Lee B. & Janice Tanne. (2000) Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis. McGraw-Hill. ^[9] ISBN   0071359249

References

1. "Tuberculosis (TB)". World Health Organization. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
2. Horton, Richard (15 November 2012). "Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis by Helen Bynum – review". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-07-19.
3. Houston, Muiris (1999-06-19). "The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 318 (7199): 1705. doi:10.1136/bmj.318.7199.1705. ISSN   0959-8138. PMC   1116046 . PMID   10373196.
4. Bryder, Linda (2000-04-01). "Reviews". Social History of Medicine. 13 (1): 180–181. doi:10.1093/shm/13.1.180. ISSN   0951-631X.
5. Rothman, Sheila M. (1996). "Book Review: Healing Tuberculosis in the Woods: Medicine and Science at the End of the Nineteenth Century" . Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 70 (4): 729–730. doi:10.1353/bhm.1996.0141. S2CID   56534996.
6. Ellison, D. L. (1994). "Healing tuberculosis in the woods: medicine and science at the end of the nineteenth century". Contributions in Medical Studies (41): 1–201. ISSN   0886-8220. PMID   11639952.
7. Margulis, L. (2002-09-01). "Frank Ryan: Tuberculosis: the greatest story never told". International Microbiology. 5 (3): 151–152. doi:10.1007/s10123-002-0080-1. ISSN   1139-6709. S2CID   82320591.
8. Mandavilli, Apoorva (2022-02-05). "Battling an Ancient Scourge". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-02-10.
9. Mitchell, David (2002-01-26). "Timebomb: The Global Epidemic of Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis". BMJ: British Medical Journal. 324 (7331): 245. doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7331.245a. ISSN   0959-8138. PMC   1122168 .