These educational modules are designed to provide basic information about tuberculosis (TB) in a self-study format for new TB health care workers. This instructional packet includes a series of five modules, an introduction, a glossary, and content covering transmission, pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment of TB infection and disease, and infection control.
This pamphlet discusses the use of the drug isoniazid (INH) to treat latent TB infection. It provides information on the length of treatment and side effects.
This monograph discusses the history of TB, the search for TB treatment and diagnostic methods, and its resurgence, including the emergence of multiple drug resistant (MDR) strains of TB.
Explains Cure-TB, a referral program for people with TB moving between the United States and Mexico.
This fact sheet for persons who have a positive skin test for TB presents information about follow-up TB testing.
These guidelines are designed to aid central units of national TB and HIV/AIDS programs work with districts to implement collaborative TB/HIV activities.
This pocket-size drug treatment information card for clinicians provides information on the standard anti-tuberculosis therapy for active disease in adults, including dosages, daily and intermittent regimens, side effects, treatment information, and visual depictions of first-line medications.
This book describes exposure, infection, disease, and death from TB using epidemiological data. It reviews statistics, including the number of TB cases, the duration of infection in these cases, and the number of case contact interactions per unit of time.
This fact sheet provides basic information about TB and describes how TB is transmitted.
This pocket guide provides information on the phases of partnership building.
