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This field guide is a companion document to WHO's "Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis."

This hospital discharge planning checklist may be used by health care workers to ensure that all of the appropriate steps have been taken in order to discharge a TB patient from the hospital.

This fact sheet provides information to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis (TB) for patients who are potentially infectious.

Adequate ventilation can reduce the transmission of infection in health-care settings. Natural ventilation can be one of the effective environmental measures to reduce the risk of spread of infections in health care.

This guideline first defines ventilation and then natural ventilation. It explores...

This manual gives guidance for the x-ray reading in TB Suspects and provides a useful tool for better diagnosing of smear-negative TB in adult TB suspects.

View this webinar to become familiar with the mechanism of action of Fluoroquinolones, medical trials investigating the role of Fluoroquinolones, and current recommendations and potential future roles of Fluoroquinolones in the treatment of tuberculosis.

The purpose of this Handbook is to provide a practical source of information on laws related to TB control to help public health practitioners and their legal counsel to: (1) understand the legal environment for the control of communicable diseases, including TB; (2) identify and explain legal...

The purpose of the Menu is to provide a set of optional provisions for consideration by public health officials and their legal counsel in their efforts to eliminate tuberculosis.

This new roadmap for 2011-2015 follows on the Global Plan to Stop TB 2006-2015 while setting new and more ambitious targets for the next five years. The action plan, for the first time, identifies all the research gaps that need to be filled to bring rapid TB tests, faster treatment regimens and a...

This brochure presents guidance to limit liver toxicity in the HIV-positive patient with latent TB infection.