This online video describes what TB is and how it is spread. It explains that although TB affects people worldwide, it can be prevented, treated, and cured. The video also identifies individuals who are at risk for TB and emphasizes that they should take the TB skin test.
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2003
This pamphlet uses a question and answer format to provide information on TB infection, how it is transmitted and diagnosed, what to do when a skin test is positive, and what a person needs to know about TB medicines.
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Persons With LTBI
2002
This pamphlet uses a question and answer format to provide information about coinfection with tuberculosis (TB) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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Persons With LTBI
2002
This report sets out the rationale for the ProTest Initiative (Promotion of Voluntary Testing), based on an analysis of the impact of HIV on TB control. It describes the elements of the ProTest approach, reviews progress so far, and sets out the future direction. The purpose of the report is to generate discussion and ideas that will help the Initiative establish a comprehensive range of interventions needed to control TB in settings with high prevalence of HIV infection.
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Policy Makers
2002
This brochure discusses TB and its relationship to HIV/AIDS.
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2002
This book discusses targeted tuberculin skin testing for latent TB infection as a strategic component of TB control. Specifically addressed are how to administer, read, and interpret the tuberculin skin test and its specificity and sensitivity.
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2002
This report presents the findings of a short-term study to examine the risk of TB among health care workers. It discusses the possible effects of federal guidelines, responses to resurgent TB, and proposed strategies for eliminating TB in the United States and worldwide.
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Health Educators/Communicators
Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2001
This report provides findings from a study designed to compare a whole-blood interferon gamma assay, the QuantiFERON-TB test, with tuberculin skin testing for detecting latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and to identify factors associated with discordance between the tests.
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2001
This monograph discusses the history of TB, the search for TB treatment and diagnostic methods, and its resurgence, including the emergence of multiple drug resistant (MDR) strains of TB.
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2001
This fact sheet discusses the meaning of a negative TB skin test and states that persons with HIV/AIDS may be at risk for false negative results.
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2001
This pamphlet explains TB and TB skin testing.
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2000
This fact sheet, available online or via fax only, discusses the tuberculin skin test and when to suspect TB disease. Specifically, it discusses administering the tuberculin skin test, interpreting the results, false-positive and false-negative results, two-step testing, anergy, and interpreting reactions in persons vaccinated with BCG.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2000
This book provides government and nongovernment entities involved in TB elimination with background on the pathology of TB, its history, and the public and private response to TB in the United States.
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Community Leaders
2000
This report describes an outbreak of drug-susceptible TB that occurred in a South Carolina state correctional facility housing HIV-infected inmates and illustrates the need for increased vigilance for TB in settings in which HIV-infected persons congregate.
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2000
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
