This website is an open-access resource library of radiographic images of tuberculosis. Individuals may use these images to gain an appreciation for the broad spectrum of radiographic manifestations of tuberculosis. The images are free to download and share for non-commercial educational purposes. To contribute radiographs and help grow this site, submit images to the editors at CurryTBcenter@ucsf...
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2014
This series of interactive modules was developed by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Topics include laboratory safety, specimen collection, AFB smear microscopy, mycobacterial culture, and drug susceptibility testing...
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Lab Personnel
2014
These four webinars highlight challenges, legal requirements, and best practice strategies for preventing and controlling TB in correctional facilities. These webinars were produced by the Minnesota Department of Health in consultation with several local public health agencies and correctional agency staff...
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Correctional Facility Staff
2014
The purpose of this training toolkit is to build the capacity of health care workers to address and manage TB in children. The toolkit consists of ten modules. Topics include epidemiology of childhood TB, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, TB/HIV co-infection, multidrug-resistant TB, and community-based child TB management.
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International Agencies
2014
This booklet discusses TB in correctional facilities.
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International Agencies
2014
This document presents lessons learned in regards to strengthening TB care, implementing new approaches TB case detection, and increasing TB case notifications.
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International Agencies
2014
This handbook provides detailed examples of the analysis of TB surveillance data, in particular TB notification data, data from surveillance of anti-TB drug resistance, and mortality data compiled in national vital registration systems.
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International Agencies
2014
The Homelessness and TB Toolkit is an online resource developed to assist both public health programs and homeless service agencies in the important work of TB control among people experiencing homelessness. The toolkit contains guidelines, forms, signs, educational materials, articles, and other resources...
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Social Service Providers
2014
The goal of these materials is to teach patients about TB infection and to motivate them to start and complete treatment if diagnosed. The materials are designed to encourage provider-patient interactions for active learning through the process of testing and treatment decisions. There are four materials in this series and it is suggested to use the materials as a continuum, as they build upon each other.
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Persons With LTBI
2014
This webinar addresses common tuberculosis infection control concerns among health care facility staff.
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2014
This 60-minute webinar was created for public and private clinicians and allied health personnel who work with pediatric tuberculosis.
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2014
This document provides a compilation of best practices for psycho-emotional support and socio-economic support for TB patients from inpatient and outpatient programs around the world.
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2014
The new edition of this guide provides a background on basic epidemiology for TB program staff, as well as descriptions of how these concepts can be put to practical use. In addition to basic epidemiology for tuberculosis, this guide contains information on epidemiologic and statistical techniques that are used in research studies and a chapter on TB genotyping...
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Managers and Supervisors
2013
This issue discusses a nurses’ relationship with a Vietnamese couple affected by TB. It highlights some challenges in communication, and how they were overcome. The issue also includes information on communication styles and use of open-ended questions.
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Outreach Workers
Policy Makers
2013
This pamphlet uses a question and answer format to provide information on TB disease. It explains what TB is, how it is transmitted, the symptoms of TB, and what a person needs to know about TB medicines.
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2013
This video helps train all shelter staff and volunteers about how to prevent the spread of TB in homeless shelters. It describes what TB is, how it is spread, what to do when you suspect someone has TB, how to develop and implement a TB infection control policy, and how you and your local health department can work together to create a healthy and safe environment for staff and clients...
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Managers and Supervisors
Social Service Providers
2013
This fact sheet describes tuberculosis, including latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI), its diagnosis, transmission, treatment options, and what people should do if they have been exposed to the disease.
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2013
This website provides answers to common questions regarding a bronchoscopy.
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Parents/Families
2013
This 15-minute video provides basic TB information and promotes a collaborative approach to addressing TB in the African American community. Suggested venues for showing the video include waiting rooms in health department clinics, substance abuse treatment centers, correctional facilities, barbershops, and other community-based settings where educational content is appropriate...
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Black or African American persons
Community Based Organizations
Community Leaders
Health Educators/Communicators
2013
This online resource provides guidelines for general physicians (GPs) about their patients with TB who intend to travel overseas. Issues of concern are the risk of transmission of TB to other passengers, as well as continuity of anti-TB treatment for the patient.
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2013
