This guide details the latest WHO recommendations, TB diagnostic tools, and how these diagnostic tools should be used in country programs. The guide also provides activists with the information needed to advocate for access to TB diagnostic testing.
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International Agencies
Policy Makers
2020
Guided video for patients who have to collect their sputum during a medical visit.
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Civil Surgeons
Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
Lab Personnel
Managers and Supervisors
Medical and Nursing School Students
2018
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
This website is a comprehensive source of evidence syntheses, policies, guidelines, and research agendas on TB diagnosis. The website offers detailed guidance on how to conduct and report diagnostic research on TB, guidance on how to perform systematic reviews of diagnostics, tools on guideline development, including GRADE, and documents on improvement of laboratory quality and practice...
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Lab Personnel
2009
In this video, viewers are taught what sputum is and are walked through steps to collect a good and testable sample. These short, animated instructions are designed to help people produce good sputum specimens for TB diagnosis. They can be shown just prior to submitting sputum (e...
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General Public
Health Educators/Communicators
2018
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 video provides information on how to produce a sputum specimen.
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General Public
Persons with TB
2022
This resource is designed to help facilitate a training of The Union's "Online Childhood TB Training for Healthcare Workers course" (https://childhoodtb.theunion.org). Included in the training package are a facilitator's guide, sample course agenda, a participant workbook, and a sample evaluation form...
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2017
This document is intended for those dealing with tuberculosis and HIV at all levels in HIV-prevalent and resource-constrained settings. It is intended to assist development of national policies to improve the diagnosis and management of smear-negative pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The recommendations and algorithms are designed for use by national tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS control programs and service providers.
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International Agencies
Managers and Supervisors
2007
This video provides information on how to produce a good sputum sample that is induced by using a nebulizer and saline solution.
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General Public
Persons with TB
2022
This pamphlet provides detailed guidelines for patients about how and when to collect a sputum sample.
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2009
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 guide was developed by the Global Laboratory Initiative, which is one of the Working Groups of the Stop TB Partnership. The guide replaces both the 1998 WHO and 2000 IUATLD guides on smear microscopy and contains many new elements.
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Lab Personnel
2013
These guidelines for laboratory services are contained in a series of three manuals, two of which are focused on the technical aspects of tuberculosis microscopy and culture and a third which deals with laboratory management, including aspects such as laboratory safety and proficiency testing. These manuals have been developed for use in low-and middle-income countries with high tuberculosis prevalence and incidence rates...
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Lab Personnel
1998
This notice explains that on September 30, 1999, the Food and Drug Administration approved a reformulated amplified Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Direct (MTD) test for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in acid-fast Bacille (AFB) smear-positive and smear-negative respiratory specimens from patients suspected of having TB.
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Lab Personnel
2000
