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This fact sheet explains to patients the reason for a sputum test and contains step-by-step directions for giving a sample of sputum.

This book discusses targeted tuberculin skin testing for latent TB infection as a strategic component of TB control. Specifically addressed are how to administer, read, and interpret the tuberculin skin test and its specificity and sensitivity.

This product will assist health department TB programs to document ways to decrease the number of TB cases. Specifically, programs can identify (1) providers who served the patient up to the TB diagnosis, and (2) points at which the provider failed to carry out TB testing and treatment...

This resource will provide health departments with the ability to identify health care facilities in the community where targeted TB testing and treatment of LTBI are likely to be most successful and efficient. Used in conjunction with another product developed by the New Jersey Medical School...

This guide is designed to help health care workers working in low-income countries interpret chest radiographs of children with suspected TB in areas where there is limited access to a radiologist or specialist.

This report provides suggestions that may facilitate increased involvement of the National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) in health sector reform, encourage increased technical input into health systems' planning, and promote the strategic positioning of TB control in the context of changing...

This book presents five papers that were used as background to a workshop on "Improving TB Drug Management: Accelerating DOTS Expansion" on June 2002, in Washington, DC. The papers address the weaknesses in drug management programs of certain countries and provide a framework for strengthening these...

This information card lists possible adverse reactions and/or side effects patients may have to TB medication.

This information card provides information on the multiple significant drug interactions between TB medications; specifically, INH, rifampin, and other medications and the effect of the interaction. It also provides information on food interactions with TB drugs.

This poster serves as a quick reference to the Revised Treatment of Tuberculosis Guidelines published in February 2003 by the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Disease Society of America. It contains information on treatment during the initial and continuation dosing phases, the...