This website contains resources, materials, and links to latent TB infection and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) materials.
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2016
This slide set was developed as an accompaniment to Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection, a joint statement by CDC and the American Thoracic Society, and subsequent updates. The slide set provides an overview of the current recommendations for the testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis.
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2016
This guide aims to improve case detection, management, and outcomes of children with TB.
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2016
This expert video commentary features DTBE Director, Dr. Philip LoBue, and provides information for physicians on the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on testing for latent TB infection.
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2016
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
The Self-Study Modules, 1-5 is part of a series of educational modules designed to provide information about TB in a self-study format. This slide set was developed as an accompaniment to the print-based Self-Study Modules, 1-5 to aid in the presentation of module content for a facilitator-led training...
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Outreach Workers
2016
This 90-minute webinar is the second of two webinars to highlight the NTCA/APHL Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay. The first webinar is Changing TB Isolation Practices: New Guidelines for Molecular Testing.
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Lab Personnel
Nurses
Physicians
2016
This 90-minute webinar is the first of two webinars to highlight the NTCA/APHL Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay. The second webinar is GeneXpert: Examples From the Field.
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Lab Personnel
Nurses
Physicians
2016
This 90-minute webinar is the first of two webinars to highlight the NTCA/APHL Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid GeneXpert MTB/RIF Assay. The second webinar is GeneXpert: Examples From the Field.
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Lab Personnel
Nurses
Physicians
2016
This fact sheet identifies persons who should be tested for tuberculosis (TB) and lists conditions that increase a person's risk for progression to active TB, such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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2015
This online course covers how to diagnose, treat, and prevent childhood TB. The course consists of six modules: epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, TB/HIV, prevention, and practice. The content is based on the World Health Organization's "Guidance for National Tuberculosis Programmes on the Management of Tuberculosis in Children" and the Union's "Desk Guide for Diagnosis and Management of TB in Children...
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2015
The purpose of this flipbook is to assist healthcare workers in providing patient education around TB testing, TB infection and TB disease. Panels for patients include simple text and images to reinforce key messages and corresponding panels for providers include easy to deliver script and teaching points.
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Health Educators/Communicators
2015
This is a web-based course that provides clinicians with the basic concepts of diagnosing and treating latent TB infection and TB disease. The course is based on the print-based Core Curriculum and includes chapters on transmission, pathogenesis, testing, diagnosis, treatment, and infection control.
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2015
This guide aims to improve case detection, management, and outcomes of children with TB.
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2015
This fact sheet provides information regarding the QuantiFERON®-TB Gold In-Tube Test.
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2015
