TB

This webpage provides summary information on Connecticut's quarantine laws.

This form for TB patients details the actions the patient will take to avoid spreading TB.

This pamphlet provides general information about LTBI and TB disease diagnosis and treatment as well as information about home isolation.

This pamphlet provides general information about LTBI and TB disease diagnosis and treatment as well as information about home isolation.

This pamphlet provides detailed guidelines for patients about how and when to collect a sputum sample.

This pamphlet provides detailed guidelines for patients about how and when to collect a sputum sample.

This video provides a step-by-step guide for patients on how to collect sputum at home. The video is available in 18 languages (Burmese, English, French, Hmong, Karen, Karenni, Khmer, Kunama, Lao, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

This online course, which includes slides, audio narration, and interactive questions, provides information on how to screen, test, and treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients for latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). TB and HIV experts from the Western Region wrote and presented the case-based lessons in this course.

The Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch (CEBSB) in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) at CDC developed a video podcast on the 12-dose treatment regimen for latent tuberculosis infection. The video podcast features Dr. Kenneth Castro and is available in English and Spanish. Additional 12-dose regimen communication products are available on the CDC TB Web site (http://www.cdc.gov/tb/).

This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.