This report describes the updated guidelines for using nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB).
These CDC guidelines provide recommendations for using and interpreting the QuantiFERON-TB test in the detection of TB infection.
This document guides NTPs on how to engage all relevant health care providers in TB control and thereby promote the use of evidence-based, International Standards for TB Care. The experience and evidence on scaling up and sustaining PPM is now clearly emerging. The authors hope that this document...
The webinar presents information about the risk of TB among refugees from TB endemic countries and the challenges that influence their ability and willingness to see a health care provider after arriving to the US. The webinar also discusses factors that may affect U.S. health care providers’...
This webinar provides information on the identification of patients at high risk for progression to active disease. The presenters also discuss challenges for treatment completion, such as co-morbidities, risky behaviors, and other medications that may interfere with treatment.
This fact sheet discusses the risk groups who are more vulnerable to TB and why these groups are most at risk. The at-risk groups includeing the urban poor, migrants, and refugees, the homeless, prisoners, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
This report describes three cases that illustrate several issues associated with the deportation of patients with incomplete treatment of TB disease after detention. These cases highlight the need for interagency coordination to ensure completion of treatment for persons being evaluated or treated...
This book presents the objectives of the binational agenda for the Healthy Border 2010 program which was designed to facilitate and support community-based solutions for health promotion, disease prevention, and access to health services in the border region.
This brochure describes the TB Eradication Project among African immigrants and refugees in the San Diego area. The project is designed to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate TB prevention and treatment services to refugees and immigrants from East Africa.
This fact sheet presents data on the distribution of TB cases among the foreign-born of Los Angeles County in 2003.
