Guided video for patients who have to collect their sputum during a medical visit.
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Civil Surgeons
Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
Lab Personnel
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Medical and Nursing School Students
2018
This guide is for people with tuberculosis (TB), people at risk for TB, and their caretakers. The guide contains information on what services you have the right to receive, as well as your rights related to TB prevention, testing, treatment, and care.
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American Indian or Alaska Native persons
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Social Service Providers
2018
This is a flipbook from the Multnomah County Health Department for patients with tuberculosis (TB) disease. The flipbook has information on TB disease, testing, case management, treatment, and more. The material is also available in Russian, Chinese, Somali, Vietnamese, and Spanish.
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Health Educators/Communicators
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2018
Dr. Mark Gilbert of the BC Centre for Disease Control talks about tuberculosis in a minute-long video.
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2018
An infographic with information on latent TB, TB disease, TB in British Columbia, TB globally, and TB symptoms,
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Persons With LTBI
2018
Dr. Mark Gilbert of the BC Centre for Disease Control talks about the prevalence of tuberculosis in British Columbia.
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Health Educators/Communicators
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2018
4 waiting room posters to encourage patients to speak with their doctor about latent TB. The posters are available in English and Chinese.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2018
A checklist for individuals to see if they may need a test for TB. The checklist has 3 questions:
*Were you born in or have you lived in a country (for over a month) where TB is common? This includes anywhere in Africa, Asia, Mexico, Central or South America, the Caribbean or Eastern Europe.
*Have you lived with or spent time with someone who has had TB?
*Do you have HIV/AIDS, diabetes, or kidney disease? Are you an organ transplant recipient or do you take medication that weakens your immune system?
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Health Educators/Communicators
2018
Laboratory services, such as sputum specimen diagnosis, are vital to effective TB control. This resource may be used by laboratories to develop institutional policies that support proper collection and submission of sputum specimens for TB testing.
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Health Professionals
Lab Personnel
2018
This handbook focuses specifically on three technologies that are being widely used to help TB patients complete their treatment over the many months that their regimens last.
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Civil Surgeons
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International Agencies
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Long-term Care Residents
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Social Service Providers
2018
An educational video and presentation intended to train health care providers to perform Tuberculin skin testing.
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Health Educators/Communicators
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2018
The website contains information on the global TB epidemic. The website also provides access to TB resources, including videos, social media tools, and fact sheets.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Health Professionals
2018
This slide set presents surveillance data based on TB case reports for 1993–2017 received by CDC.
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Community Based Organizations
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Persons with TB
2018
In this video CDC's Dr. LoBue discussing the updated recommendations for the 12-dose treatment regimen for latent TB infection.
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Community Based Organizations
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State Government Agencies
2018
This online fact sheet provides information about HIV/AIDS and TB co-infection.
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General Public
2018
This story highlights the personal experiences of a Tuberculosis (TB) survivor who was diagnosed and treated for TB disease. The survivor details the challenges of a lengthy hospital stay, her worries over how TB medicines would affect her pregnancy and baby, and her work as an advocate since recovering from TB...
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At Risk Persons
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Persons with TB
2017
This video highlights the continuing problem of tuberculosis (TB) in the United States and encourages people to take action by visiting the CDC TB website and getting tested for TB infection if they are at risk.
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Health Professionals
2017
This 2-page document covers the basics of when TB skin tests are recommended, how TB is spread, what active TB disease and latent TB infection is, and what getting a TB skin test entails.
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General Public
2017
This handout provides general information on extrapulmonary TB. Topics covered include symptoms of extrapulmonary TB, how to keep friends and family safe, and how extrapulmonary TB is treated.
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General Public
Persons with TB
2017
The BCG World Atlas is a database of policies and practices of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine from countries all over the world.
Variations in BCG vaccination practices impact the interpretation of TB diagnostics, such as the widely used Tuberculin Skin Test (TST). This tool can assist clinicians in making diagnostic decisions concerning TB infection.
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Health Professionals
Civil Surgeons
2017
