TB

This guideline provides guidance on the principles and evidence-informed recommendations on the nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis.

This timeline shows TB innovations throughout history.

This fact sheet is a step-by-step guideline discussing the supplies required, limitations and precautions, pharmacokinetics, proper storage, and accurate placement for injection of Amikacin with picture guides. The reverse side features a table covering Amikacin, Streptomycin, and Capreomycin, including information regarding drug information, dosing, side effects, monitoring, contraindications and use in renal disease.

This website provides information regarding TB and migration issues.

This Medscape CDC Expert Video Commentary features Dr. Sundari Mase discussing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) and the recently released CDC guidelines for the use and monitoring of a new TB drug called bedaquiline.

This document outlines community-based strategies for integrating childhood TB activities, such as TB prevention and identification of TB, with other maternal and child health care services. Suggested modifications for including childhood TB into community-based care models are provided.

This video discusses the challenges of childhood TB by telling the story of Mary, a five year old girl who lives in Africa. A community health worker helped her realize that her persistent cough may be TB.

The Mental Health Assessment Tool was developed to bring awareness to behaviors that may potentially disrupt the TB treatment regimen. This tool includes a series of questionnaires and observations that can be documented during the patient’s medical evaluation.

These modules are designed for health care workers and provide TB programmatic information. The modules include information on managing patients and improving adherence, patient rights and confidentiality, contact investigations, and outbreak detection and response.

This fact sheet provides information on the Xpert MTB/RIF Assay.