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This report presents summary data for TB cases reported to the Division of TB Elimination (DTBE), verified, and counted in 2007. These reports of TB cases were submitted by 60 reporting areas (50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and seven other jurisdictions in the...

This report summarizes updated recommendations for managing the drug-drug interactions that occur when using antiretroviral therapy during TB treatment. Changes from previous versions of these guidelines include an effort to obtain and summarize the clinical experience of using specific...

This National TB Report publishes key process and outcomes measures for TB control programs in the United States to evaluate progress towards TB elimination.

Estas historias resaltan las experiencias personales de varias personas que fueron diagnosticadas y tratadas por la enfermedad de la tuberculosis, así como el trabajo de los profesionales de control de la tuberculosis.

2016 is the first year of implementation of the WHO End TB Strategy in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda, both of which include the aim of ending the TB epidemic. To support the work ahead, the World Health Organization’s Global TB Programme has developed...

This pamphlet is the introduction to a series of TB-specific cultural competency guides for the birth countries most commonly reported by foreign-born persons being treated for TB in the United States. Each guide is meant to help health care professionals acquire a greater awareness and...

This report describes the investigation by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which initially identified five confirmed cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) in two distinct clusters, characterized by two distinct geographic...

This report describes the investigation of a genotype cluster of eight tuberculosis cases in US born patients in the Detroit metropolitan area. The investigation was done by the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, the Michigan Department of Community Health, and the Centers for...

This report provides information on the meeting “From Mekong to Bali: The Scale-up of TB/HIV Collaborative Activities in Asia Pacific,” which was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the TB/HIV Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. There were 127 participants...

This report was produced by a Federal TB task force that was reconvened by CDC in November 2006. The task force drafted an updated action plan to address the issue of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) and extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB). Task force members were charged with articulating the...