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This pamphlet provides information on TB, HIV and TB coinfection, the burden of TB in minorities, and drug resistant TB and the measures needed to eliminate TB in the US and in the world.

This information sheet discusses the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for TB disease, which is used in many countries to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary disease. It explains why the BCG is not generally recommended for use in the United States; suggests that the BCG should...

This Power Point presentation contains 181 slides that provide guidelines for the prevention and control of TB in correctional facilities, as recommended by CDC. The slides include a summary of changes from the 1996 CDC recommendations, background, screening, case reporting, airborne infection...

This poster announcing World TB Day emphasizes the global nature of the disease and the need for international cooperation to eliminate TB.

This poster announcing World TB Day emphasizes the global nature of the disease and the need for international cooperation to eliminate TB.

This report provides a framework for TB prevention and control programs for use in planning new intervention strategies and strengthening existing ones through partnership formation. The report explains how to forge partnerships, why partnership formation is important, and how the formation...

This handbook is a reference tool for use by national tuberculosis (TB) program managers, clinicians and nurses, public health decision-makers and technical and implementing partners committed to the prevention, care, diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB.

This report summarizes national surveillance TB data for 1998 and compares them with similar data from 1992. The report includes number of reported cases and the percentage change in number of cases and rates by state and year as well as by sex, age, and year for 1992 and 1998. Findings indicate...

This monograph is a reference guide for detecting and preventing TB and treating patients with TB. It includes data on the epidemiology of TB, coinfection with HIV, the WHO strategy of directly observed therapy-short course (DOTS) for treating TB, and its implementation in the WHO European region...

TB 101 for Health Care Workers is a web-based course designed to educate newly hired health care workers about basic concepts related to TB prevention and control in the U.S. Continuing education (CE) is offered free of charge for various professions based on approximately 1 hour of instruction...