The mobile application was designed to make it easy to view CDC’s latest LTBI recommendations on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android. When your device is connected to wireless or cellular service, the content is updated automatically to ensure you always have the most up-to-date information.
This animated video provides an overview of TB and calls for a world with zero TB deaths.
This report highlights the issues surrounding high prices and poor supply of the drugs needed to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The report provides an overview of available drug-resistant TB medicines, including drug sources, quality status, and price.
This toolkit was developed to help National TB Program managers and others involved in the management of TB programs develop new National Strategic Plans or improve existing ones.
The goal of these materials is to teach patients about TB infection and to motivate them to start and complete treatment if diagnosed. The materials are designed to encourage provider-patient interactions for active learning through the process of testing and treatment decisions. There are four materials in this series and it is suggested to use the materials as a continuum, as they build upon each other.
Using a self-study format, this publication presents the physical principles of plain chest radiography, enabling clinicians to 1) understand how chest radiographs are created and why normal anatomy and pathology may or may not be visualized using radiographs; 2) gather information from the radiograph; and 3) read and interpret chest radiographs for the presence of TB disease using standard terminology.
This report presents summary data for U.S. TB cases reported to the Division of TB Elimination, CDC, during 2014.
The series of 5 short documentary videos presents stories from healthcare workers in the TB field, examining the risks, the struggles and possible solutions to protecting this critical workforce, including new TB vaccines. The TB Unmasked website, www.tbunmasked.org, also offers healthcare workers resources to learn more about protecting themselves, and features written stories submitted by healthcare workers around the world. The site also enables users to share their own stories with the healthcare community.
This report details the steps that governments of countries with high burdens of TB-HIV and their partners have taken to turn a coordinated response to TB-HIV into reality at the country level, as well as the remaining gaps.
This brochure describes Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis) in humans and in cattle.
