This manual provides practical guidance relating to the proper use of ambulatory infusion therapy for the treatment of MDR-TB. The guide offers a rationale for providing outpatient infusion therapy for MDR-TB in a clinic setting and describes how to organize the clinic to provide the therapy. In addition, it contains a wall chart which summarizes the daily tasks for providing infusion therapy.
This brochure provides information about TB clinic locations and hours of operation in San Diego area.
This poster, designed for health care settings, urges patients to cover their noses and mouths when coughing to help stop the spread of germs.
This fact sheet gives general information about active TB disease including symptoms, complications, tests, and treatment.
The Effective TB Interviewing for Contact Investigations Materials include a Faciltator-Led Training Guide, Self-Study Modules, and a Video. These materials are designed to teach successful interviewing strategies to health care workers who are responsible for conducting TB interviews with patients as part of contact investigations. The materials can be used together or on their own. Each material has to be ordered separately from the CDC website order form.
This fact sheet was developed as part of the H.A.L.T. (Hear, Act, Learn, Treat) TB public awareness campaign aimed at African American communities in Georgia, USA. The fact sheet provides basic information on TB symptoms and getting tested for TB.
This fact sheet explains who should and who should not get vaccinated against TB. It also explains how to interpret tuberculin skin test results in people who have received the vaccination and the treatment for LTBI in BCG-vaccinated persons.
This fact sheet provides information on how the skin test is given and read, and what the results mean.
This manual outlines a global strategy for the development and strengthening of TB laboratory networks. The strategy recognizes the need to upgrade existing laboratory services and to strengthen/build capacity to perform culture and drug susceptibility testing (DST) in areas experiencing a high burden of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear-negative TB associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and to support DOTS-Plus projects.
These guidelines for laboratory services are contained in a series of three manuals, two of which are focused on the technical aspects of tuberculosis microscopy and culture and a third which deals with laboratory management, including aspects such as laboratory safety and proficiency testing. These manuals have been developed for use in low-and middle-income countries with high tuberculosis prevalence and incidence rates. Not only are they targeted to everyday laboratory use, but also for incorporation in teaching and training of laboratory and other health care staff.
