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This pocket guide is intended to assist clinicians in managing HIV-infected patients with LTBI and drug-susceptible active pulmonary TB. The guide includes signs and symptoms, adult dosing, dosage forms, drug-drug interactions, side effects, and patient counseling points.

This document is intended for use as a reference manual for clinicians caring for persons with or at high risk for TB disease or infection. It is not meant to provide detailed answers to all public health or clinical questions about TB, and it is not meant as a substitute for any specific...

This 60-minute webinar reviews best practices for TB diagnosis and management for ICE detainees, the role of public health and community partners, and how care is coordinated for patients who are released.

The case presentation discussed in this 60-minute webinar provides insight on the complicated factors a nurse case manager navigated to treat a patient with disseminated TB. The webinar was created for TB nurses, nurse case managers, and public health nurses who manage TB patients.

This document describes the steps necessary to implement the shorter regimen and the new drugs for drug-resistant TB treatment, including diagnosis and bacterial confirmation of drug resistance, treatment regimen design, monitoring of treatment efficacy and safety, and programmatic evaluation.

The guide, based on nursing and drug-resistant TB literature, establishes best practice nursing assessment and intervention guidance. The content was created to act as a reference and job aid for nurses to:
1.Identify symptoms that may indicate a side effect related to DR-TB treatment or...

This guideline provides guidance on the principles and evidence-informed recommendations on the nutritional care and support for patients with tuberculosis.

This 90-minute training was created for public and private clinicians and allied health personnel who work with tuberculosis (TB). It clarified key information that TB Programs need to know related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

This fact sheet provides information regarding the 12-dose regimen for treating latent TB infection.

This report describes approaches for managing patients with TB who are candidates for or who are undergoing protease inhibitor therapy and presents interim recommendations for managing these patients until additional data are available and formal guidelines are issued. Protease inhibitors interact...