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This report summarizes a recent outbreak of TB and highlights the challenges of preventing TB among homeless persons, particularly when multiple chains of transmission are occurring and multiple jurisdictions are involved. The findings underscore the complementary role of rapid DNA genotyping in the detection of possible TB transmission in homeless populations. To ensure early detection of unsuspected TB transmission in homeless populations, health department TB-control programs are encouraged to use CDC's universal Mycobacterium tuberculosis rapid genotyping system.

This website raises worldwide awareness about the international health threat posed by tuberculosis. For World TB Day 2005, the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat proposes to focus on the central role of frontline TB care providers in the fight against TB. It includes three Briefing Notes that the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat will distribute for planning and implementing advocacy and social mobilization activities for World TB Day 2005.

This brochure is a Marshallese translation of a popular CDC brochure featuring frequently asked questions about TB. It discusses TB transmission, symptoms, testing, and treatment and explains the difference between latent TB infection and active TB disease.

This brochure is for TB patients and explains the meaning of a positive TB test, and where to get a chest x-ray.

This poster, designed for clinic waiting areas, urges patients to cover their noses and mouths when coughing. The message is written in five different languages.

This Power Point slide set presents basic TB information for the general public. The presentation stresses the difference between latent TB infection and active TB disease, how TB is spread, and how to prevent it.

This poster presents a "Stop TB!" message written in six languages. The languages are Chinese, English, Ilocano, Korean, Taglog, and Vietnamese.

This brochure states that tuberculosis (TB) is caused by a germ called Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis). It explains that one common place in the body that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis germ becomes active is in the glands of the neck.

This booklet explains the action and resources needed over the next five years for six working groups to expand, adapt, and improve DOTS, enabling the working groups to meet the 2005 global targets of setting the world on the road to the elimination of TB.

This report describes community-based tuberculosis care in Latin America, and field visits to selected community-based TB care projects to understand the origin, performance, acceptability, effectiveness, and sustainability of some existing DOTS projects. Three sites in Colombia and two in Bolivia, where the DOTS strategy is already implemented, were visited. The report demonstrates that lessons from a Latin American perspective on community-based TB care can help to understand and identify the role that the community plays in TB control in the region.