This fact sheet explains to patients the reason for a sputum test and contains step-by-step directions for giving a sample of sputum.
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Asian or Pacific Islander persons
Non-U.S.-born persons
2004
This fact sheet contains information about the treatment of latent TB infection (LTBI) and the prevention of active TB disease.
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Asian or Pacific Islander persons
Non-U.S.-born persons
Persons With LTBI
2004
This fact sheet provides information on how the skin test is given and read, and what the results mean.
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Asian or Pacific Islander persons
Non-U.S.-born persons
2004
This fact sheet gives general information about active TB disease including symptoms, complications, tests, and treatment.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
2005
This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
2005
This card in English and Hmong provides a place for health professionals to record tuberculin skin test results, QFT result, chest x-ray date, TB status, the medical treatment being administered, and contact information for the service provider. The card is given to the patient to serve as a permanent record of TB status.
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Persons With LTBI
2005
This video provides a step-by-step guide for patients on how to collect sputum at home. The video is available in 18 languages (Burmese, English, French, Hmong, Karen, Karenni, Khmer, Kunama, Lao, Mandarin Chinese, Nepali, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tigrinya, Urdu, and Vietnamese).
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General Public
2011
This fact sheet introduces the TB blood test, also called an Interferon Gamma Release Assay or IGRA.
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Persons With LTBI
2011
A fact sheet on the TB skin test, including information on latent TB infection, TB disease, and what a positive/negative skin test means. The fact sheet also has information on testing after receiving the BCG vaccine.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
This patient education video provides information about treatment for TB. The video is in Hmong with English subtitles.
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2016
A fact sheet for individuals experiencing a TB contact investigation. This material includes information on what happens in a TB contact investigation and how to protect others from active TB disease.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2016
A fact sheet with information of collecting sputum for TB, including content on why sputum testing is necessary.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2018
This fact sheet provides information on signs and symptoms of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR TB), and action steps to be taken if a person (or someone they know) may have been exposed to TB. The material was developed to educate patients and community members at increased risk of MDR TB due to an outbreak in the East Metro-Minnesota region...
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Non-U.S.-born persons
General Public
2018
This poster includes information on TB testing and TB disease symptoms.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2019
This poster is intended to encourage health care workers to advise clients that if conditions of tuberculosis (TB) symptoms last more than 2-3 weeks, to avoid group settings and see a medical provider immediately.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Nurses
Physicians
2019
