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Tuberculosis Diagnosis and Drug Sensitivity Testing: An Overview of the Current Diagnostic Pipeline

This report provides an overview of various TB diagnostic and drug sensitivity tests.

Tuberculosis Contact Investigations in Congregate Settings: A Resource for Evaluation

This guide if for use in the evaluation of TB contact investigation in a congregate setting (CICS), such as workplaces, shelters, schools, and places of worship. It is meant to help public health departments, or other TB programs, efficiently investigate everyone who may have come in contact with a person infected with TB and may be at risk.

Tuberculosis y Queso Fresco

This brochure explains the connection between tuberculosis and queso fresco.

Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Survival Guide for Clinicians, 3rd edition

This manual is a joint publication of the Curry International TB Center and the Tuberculosis Control Branch of the California Department of Public Health. The 10 chapters and 4 appendices cover major topics pertaining to epidemiology, diagnosis, laboratory issues, treatment, medications, pediatrics, co-morbidities and special situations, monitoring and case management, adverse reactions, and treatment of contacts.

Making Data Talk: A Workbook

The National Cancer Institute’s newly released publication, Making Data Talk: A Workbook, assists public health practitioners, scientists, health educators, clinicians, researchers, students, and statisticians to understand the critical roles data play in communication. The workbook offers recommendations about selecting and presenting data and introduces the Organize, Plan, Test, Integrate framework, which guides public health practitioners on how to present health data to lay audiences.

Implementing the Stop TB Strategy: A Handbook for National Tuberculosis Control Programmes

This handbook summarizes the issues, recommended strategies and practical measures involved in addressing the components of the Stop TB Strategy. It provides recommended approaches to implementing the Stop TB Strategy as well as activities that should be addressed by National TB Programs.

An Approach to Rapid Scale-Up Using HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care as an Example

This interactive resource aims to offer practical tools to nurses and anyone else involved in caring for patients, families and communities affected by TB including drug-resistant TB.

Environmental Control for Tuberculosis: Basic Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Guidelines for Healthcare Settings

The purpose of this document is to examine the different parameters necessary for an effec­tive upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) system and to provide guidelines to healthcare managers, facility designers, engineers, and industrial hygienists on the parameters necessary to install and maintain an effective upper-room UVGI system.

Lo que deben saber los padres sobre la infección de la tuberculosis en los niños[What Parents Need to Know About Tuberculosis (TB) Infection In Children]

This brochure provides parents with important information about latent TB infection (LTBI) in children. It is designed in a question and answer format with highlighted information for quick and easy readability. The brochure can be distributed to parents of children with LTBI and can also used by health care providers when providing education on LTBI to parents. This product is intended to be downloaded, printed and distributed at health department clinics or other locations where treatment of children with LTBI is provided.