By J. M. Grange (auth.), Marwali Harahap MD (eds.)

We have endeavoured during this publication to carry the reader updated info, so one can give a contribution to an superior skill to diagnose and deal with mycobacterial pores and skin ailments. This quantity is especially excited about conveying to dermatologists, microbiologists, immunologists, dermatologists in education, registrars in different specialties and kinfolk practitioners, a concise appraisal of a few contemporary advancements within the a number of facets of myco­ bacterial epidermis illnesses. The chapters facing bacteriology, pathology and immunology were deliberate to seem initially of the booklet to supply the required conceptual framework for the part on scientific technological know-how, which bargains with the range of medical states. the price of the medical descriptions is greatly superior by means of a cautious studying of the sooner chapters. The contributing authors were such a lot cooperative in making this, the 10th quantity within the New medical purposes in Dermatology sequence, an exceptional treatise. I thank each one of them for his or her tremendous contributions. If this publication stimulates and encourages a better curiosity in, and a greater figuring out of, mycobacterial dermis illnesses, and allows physicians to serve extra successfully those that undergo, the effort and time spent to provide it is going to be amply rewarded. PROFESSOR MARWALI HARAHAP IX sequence EDITOR'S FOREWORD It was once with nice excitement that I heard of Professor Harahap's desire to produce a quantity on mycobacterial pores and skin diseases.

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