TY  - JOUR
T1  - TRansactions of the eighteenth conference on the chemotherapy of tuberculosis.
AU  - Gray CW
Y1  - 1959/12/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270120208023
JO  - A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1052
EP  - 1052
VL  - 104
IS  - 6
N2  - The Veterans Administration Department of Medicine and Surgery, the three Armed Forces, and several other organizations have engaged in a well-coordinated cooperative study of the chemotherapy of tuberculosis since the close of World War II. The 18th Conference was held in St. Louis, in February, 1959. This paper-bound volume is a complete transcript of fifty papers presented there along with spontaneous discussions and comments—sometimes of more worth than the formal presentations—thirty-one papers read by title, and committee reports which deal largely with future study plans. This conference had world-wide representation and can be expected to continue to exert a major influence in tuberculosis practice.The Transactions are devoted chiefly to drug therapy for tuberculosis—primarily pulmonary, of course—but they touch on several extra-thoracic forms of the disease as well. Other modalities of treatment, especially resectional surgery, receive attention. Several good papers are devoted to laboratory methods and the bacteriology of the
SN  - 0888-2479
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1959.00270120208023
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1959.00270120208023
ER  -