Contents Preface v Guest Editors vii Introduction ix 1. Antibiotic prophylaxis in lung resection surgery 1 Marco Alifano, Antoine Rabbat, Antoine Tesnière and Nicolas Roche 2. Medical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis 11 Giovanni Sotgiu, Rosella Centis, Lia D’Ambrosio and Giovanni Battista Migliori 3. Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis 20 Piotr Yablonski, Ioan Cordos, Eugeny Sokolovich, Nicolas Schönfeld, Joachim Pfannschmidt and Igor Vasilyev 4. Fungal pulmonary infections: the conservative approach 37 Matteo Bassetti and Elda Righi 5. Surgical management of thoracic aspergillosis 50 Gilbert Massard, Anne Olland, Nicola Santelmo and Pierre-Emmanuel Falcoz 6. Surgical treatment of invasive aspergillosis 58 Adelheid End, Birgit Willinger and Oliver A. Cornely 7. Actinomycosis of the lung and pleura 66 Martin Kolditz and Adelheid End 8. Abscess of the lung: current therapeutic options 81 Kalliopi Athanassiadi, Radoslav Jaković and Nikolaos Siafakas 9. Surgical treatment of bronchiectasis 90 Dragan Subotic and Didier Lardinois 10. Hydatid disease of the lungs 107 Danail Petrov and Kalliopi Athanassiadi Number 61 September 2013