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MMWR: Guidelines for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities: Recommendations of CDC and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)

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This report reviews guidelines and strategies for preventing environment-associated infections in health-care facilities. It presents recommendations, including evidence-based recommendation supported by studies; requirements of federal agencies; guidelines and standards from building and equipment professional organizations; recommendations from scientific theory or rationale; and experienced opinions based upon infection-control and engineering practices. The report also suggests a series of performance measurements as a way of evaluating infection-control efforts.

Medication Information

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This fact sheet discusses TB medication information including side effects, directions for taking medication, and when to notfiy a health professional.

Tuberculosis Contact Investigations in Congregate Settings: A Resource for Evaluation

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This guide if for use in the evaluation of TB contact investigation in a congregate setting (CICS), such as workplaces, shelters, schools, and places of worship. It is meant to help public health departments, or other TB programs, efficiently investigate everyone who may have come in contact with a person infected with TB and may be at risk.

Tuberculosis y Queso Fresco

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This brochure explains the connection between tuberculosis and queso fresco.

Environmental Control for Tuberculosis: Basic Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Guidelines for Healthcare Settings

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The purpose of this document is to examine the different parameters necessary for an effec­tive upper-room ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) system and to provide guidelines to healthcare managers, facility designers, engineers, and industrial hygienists on the parameters necessary to install and maintain an effective upper-room UVGI system.

Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic

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ACTION’s analysis of the link between the burden of tuberculosis (TB) and the world’s most vulnerable children - those who are malnourished, orphans, or living with HIV - sheds light on a neglected epidemic. The report, Children and Tuberculosis: Exposing a Hidden Epidemic, is a reminder that TB is not a disease of the past and remains a leading killer, especially of children whose underdeveloped immune systems leave them particularly susceptible.

Sharing the Care: Working Together on LTBI Treatment and Management

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This webinar was created for physicians and other licensed medical professionals who diagnose and treat latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). The webinar focuses on risk assessment, diagnosis, and treatment options for LTBI.

Forging Partnerships to Eliminate Tuberculosis: A Guide and Toolkit 2007

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This report provides a framework for TB prevention and control programs for use in planning new intervention strategies and strengthening existing ones through partnership formation. The report explains how to forge partnerships, why partnership formation is important, and how the formation benefits the partners and the community. It discusses successful health-related community partnerships; covers steps in partnership building; and includes information on types of partnerships, such as networks, task forces, and advisory committees, and their purposes.

Le Petit Livre de la Tuberculose

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This pamphlet for persons diagnosed with TB or multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) contains practical advice, suggestions, guidance, and information to help the patient cope with the illness. The tips are based on personal experience of other TB patients and common sense. Tips cover an explanation of the disease its symptoms, treatment including Direct Observed Therapy (DOTS), taking medication and medication for children, side effects, managing time in isolation, communication with others while in isolation, regaining control of one’s life, eating healthy, and after completing treatment.

Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Interpreting Tuberculin Skin Results

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This information sheet discusses targeted tuberculin testing focusing on the groups at highest risk for latent TB infection (LTBI). It advises that testing should be given to those at highest risk for developing TB, and once TB disease has been ruled out, then it should be offered to those who would benefit from LTBI treatment. It also explains the steps that should be taken to ensure completion of the regimen.