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
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 about active TB disease, latent TB infection, TB transmission, and signs and symptoms of TB disease. The resource also includes information on TB testing and treatment.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
Persons with TB
2020
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 discusses general information about latent TB infection (LTBI), TB transmission, and TB tests. The resource also provides information on LTBI testing, and treatment.
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General Public
Persons With LTBI
Persons with TB
2020
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 what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.
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Non-U.S.-born persons
2005
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 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 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
The 5-minute video shares one man's story with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) and emphasizes the importance of TB treatment. The video includes details about the man's experience with TB symptoms and treatment. The video is in Hmong with English subtitles.
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Asian or Pacific Islander persons
General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
Persons with TB
2020
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 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 poster includes information on TB testing and TB disease symptoms.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Outreach Workers
2019
This patient education video provides information about treatment for TB. The video is in Hmong with English subtitles.
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2016
