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Are You Going Through the Immigration Process? Learn More About Your Required Tuberculosis (TB) Test!

A poster that describes the TB blood test, explains what a positive blood test means, and emphasizes that TB is treatable. This material was designed to be displayed in civil surgeon offices to explain TB screening as part of the immigration medical examination.  

Non-U.S.-born persons
2023
Treatment of Tuberculosis (TB) in Adults with HIV Infection

This pocket guide is intended to assist clinicians in managing patients with HIV and  LTBI, and drug-susceptible pulmonary TB disease. The guide includes signs and symptoms, adult dosing, dosage forms, drug-drug interactions, side effects, and patient counseling points.

Civil Surgeons Nurses Physicians
2023
Tuberculosis Risk Assessment for Adults

This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify adults that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.

Nurses Physicians
2023
Tuberculosis Risk Assessment for Pediatrics

This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify children that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.

Nurses Physicians
2023
Tuberculosis Risk Assessment for Health Care Workers

This tool can be used by health professionals to help identify health care workers that may need TB testing. The resource also includes space to document the results of the TB assessment.

Nurses Physicians
2023
Tuberculosis Risk Assessment for Correctional Facilities

This tool can be used by correctional and detention facilities to help identify their TB risk classification. The resource also provides recommendations to implement from the North Dakota Department of Health.

Correctional Facility Staff
2023
Understanding TB Laboratory Testing for Public Health Nurses

This online course was developed to help TB nurses and clinicians learn about TB laboratory testing best practices. Topics covered in the course include specimen preparation, detection, identification, drug susceptibility testing, and supplemental testing. The course includes resources, a glossary, and a job aid...

Nurses
2023
IGRA for Nurses

This webinar provides knowledge on Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) blood tests. Participants will learn how IGRAs are used to identify past or recent infection with the Micobacterium Tubercuculosis. Participants will also gain informaion on how to identify which test resutls require follow-up...

Nurses
2022
So Many Numbers: How to Interpret QFT Results

This slide set by the Indiana Department of Health provides information on the process of collecting and interpreting TB blood test samples. 

Lab Personnel
2022
Tuberculosis prevention and care among refugees and other populations in humanitarian settings: an interagency field guide

The interagency field guide contains information on strategic approaches, guidance, and innovations for TB prevention and care interventions in humanitarian settings. The guide focuses on the managerial/organizational aspects of TB interventions. References are also provided for the clinical aspects of TB interventions...

Government Agencies Nurses Physicians International Agencies
2022
Tuberculosis: Clinical Policies and Program Manual

This program manual provides information on the NYC Department of Health’s policies, protocols, and recommendations for the prevention, treatment, and control of TB. 

Nurses Physicians
2022
Inactive Tuberculosis (TB) Testing & Treatment

A one-page visual overview of the testing and treatment of inactive TB that can be used as a poster.

Civil Surgeons General Public Nurses Persons With LTBI Physicians
2022
Talking with Your Patients about Latent Tuberculosis (TB) Infection

This 3-page resource is a conversation guide for healthcare providers about how to talk to patients about latent TB infection.

Civil Surgeons General Public Nurses Persons With LTBI Physicians
2022
Home Sputum Collection

This video provides information on how to produce a sputum specimen.

General Public Persons with TB
2022
Induced Sputum Collection

This video provides information on how to produce a good sputum sample that is induced by using a nebulizer and saline solution. 

General Public Persons with TB
2022