This brochure provides patients with information on what to expect during their first visit to a TB clinic. This resource includes information on questions to ask for insurance purposes, interpreter services, and tests that might be ordered.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
Persons with TB
2013
This information sheet discusses TB and the risk for international travelers. It explains TB transmission, multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) strains of the disease, and how drug resistance occurs. The information sheet considers whether international travelers are at risk of MDR or XDR TB while traveling, the risk of acquiring TB on an airplane, how TB can be prevented, TB vaccine, and what an individual should do before traveling internationally and if an individual thinks that he/she may have been exposed to someone with TB disease...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This information sheet discusses multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB), a strain of TB that is resistant to at least two of the best anti-TB drugs, isoniazid and rifampicin. It describes TB disease, MDR TB, extensively drug resistant TB (XDR TB), TB transmission, how drug resistance happens, and who is at risk for getting MDR TB...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This information sheet discusses the bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine for TB, which is used in many countries to prevent childhood tuberculous meningitis and miliary TB. It explains why the BCG is not generally recommended for use in the United States; suggests that the BCG should be considered under specific circumstances; and provides recommendations for when the BCG should be used with children and health care workers, and contraindications when it should not be used, such as for immunosuppressed persons and pregnant women...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
Persons with TB
2012
The Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch (CEBSB) in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) at CDC developed a video podcast on the 12-dose treatment regimen for latent tuberculosis infection. The video podcast features Dr. Kenneth Castro and is available in English and Spanish...
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2012
This information sheet discusses TB testing and treatment for pregnant women. It explains that tuberculin skin testing is safe during pregnancy, and describes the treatment regimen for pregnant women with latent TB infection (LTBI) or TB disease. It also describes the treatment regimen for HIV-infected women suspected of being coinfected with TB...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This information sheet discusses TB and how it is affected by HIV. It defines TB and explains the difference between TB infection and TB disease. The information sheet advises that HIV weakens the immune system, increasing the chance that in people with HIV and latent TB, the TB germs will become active and attack the body, causing TB disease...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This information sheet discusses general information about TB. It explains how TB affects the body, its symptoms, and method of transmission as well as the difference between latent TB infection (LTBI) and TB disease. The information sheet also explains what to do after being in contact with an individual who has LTBI, or active TB disease...
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This pamphlet discusses TB, what it is, and how it is transmitted. It explains latent TB infection and active TB disease, TB testing, and the BCG vaccine for TB. It includes information about multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB), extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR TB), and TB treatment.
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Hispanic or Latino persons
2012
This fact sheet covers when you should suspect Tuberculosis (TB). The fact sheet also details how to evaluate a person suspected of having TB disease.
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2012
This fact sheet provides information about TB and HIV/AIDS and its impact in the U.S as well as worldwide, its prevention challenges, and what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are doing to combat the issue.
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Health Educators/Communicators
2012
This fact sheet discusses tests used to identify latent TB infection and disease and emphasizes the importance of taking all prescribed medicine to cure TB.
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Persons With LTBI
2012
This fact sheet provides an overview of Tuberculosis and multidrug-resistant TB and extensively drug resistant TB. The fact sheet covers definitions, how TB is spread, symptoms, risk factors, prevention and what to do before traveling internationally.
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2012
This fact sheet explains who should and who should not get vaccinated against TB. It also explains how to interpret tuberculin skin test results in people who have received the vaccination and the treatment for LTBI in BCG-vaccinated persons.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2012
This fact sheet discusses TB transmission, infection, disease, diagnosis through a skin test, and treatment.
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Persons With LTBI
2012
