TB

This booklet provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of TB infection and TB disease. Topics covered include the differences between latent TB infection and TB disease, treatment, and resources.

This video presents information on the difference between TB infection and disease, testing methods and recommendations, and interpretation of test results. The video also discusses special considerations for testing and the medical evaluation process.

The video contains information on the basics of TB infection, targeted testing, recommendations for screening and testing high-risk groups, and patient education messages.

In this video, viewers are taught what sputum is and are walked through steps to collect a good and testable sample. These short, animated instructions are designed to help people produce good sputum specimens for TB diagnosis. They can be shown just prior to submitting sputum (e.g., spot samples, home visits, morning samples).

This info sheet summarizes the updated 2020 LTBI treatment guidelines that apply to persons with LTBI who live in the United States

This infographic presents updated recommendations for TB screening, testing, and treatment of health care personnel.

The World Health Organization’s campaign website for World TB Day includes an advocacy and communication toolkit, an animated logo, posters, social media tiles, videos, and other TB-related links to help spread the theme “It’s TIME.”

The webinar provides information on the foundational principles of adult learning theory and shows how the principles can be used in developing trainings.

The False-Positive Investigation Toolkit provides mycobacteriology staff with updated resources to recognize potential false-positive results and to assist in false-positive investigations. The toolkit includes job-aids, posters, and templates that can be modified for local use.

This document revises previous WHO standard case definitions for TB and drug-resistant TB, the categories used to assign outcomes, and the standard reporting framework for TB.