This website provides answers to common questions regarding a bronchoscopy.
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Parents/Families
2013
The multimedia videos are targeted to community health providers, including those working at Federally Qualified Health Centers. The series contains three videos, each of which is 6 -15 minutes long, and seamlessly incorporate images, voice and text. The videos cover screening, diagnosis and treatment of LTBI...
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2013
This document sets out basic principles for prioritizing risk groups and choosing a screening approach. It emphasizes the importance of assessing the epidemiological situation, adapting approaches to local situations, integrating TB screening into other health-promotion activities, minimizing the risk of harm to individuals, and engaging in continual monitoring and evaluation.
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2013
This brochure provides basic information for patients about the TB blood test.
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Persons With LTBI
2013
The mobile application was designed to make it easy to view CDC’s latest LTBI recommendations on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android. When your device is connected to wireless or cellular service, the content is updated automatically to ensure you always have the most up-to-date information.
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2013
This fact sheet illustrates the timeline for various treatment regimens and monitoring techniques for persons with TB. It includes a timeline for drug regimens, providers, visits, sputum specimens, chest X-rays, and baseline and follow-up test.
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2012
This fact sheet discusses TB transmission, infection, disease, diagnosis through a skin test, and treatment.
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Persons With LTBI
2012
This fact sheet describes what TB is and how one can be tested for it.
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Persons With LTBI
2012
This animation provides a visual guide to the most common symptoms of TB and advises people to contact a doctor if they think they might have the illness.
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Policy Makers
2012
This fact sheet discusses TB testing for health care workers, people at high risk, and people with latent TB infection or active TB disease. This fact sheet is also available in Spanish.
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Infection Control and Occupational Health Workers
2011
This manual provides student health centers at colleges and universities with a guide for developing and implementing a TB screening and testing program. It includes many helpful resources that can be modified and used by individual campuses.
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Social Service Providers
2011
This information sheet discusses the steps taken to diagnose TB disease. It describes the symptoms of TB and explains how an individual suspected of having TB is evaluated using the following: medical history, physical examination, skin test or special TB blood test, chest radiograph, microbiological tests, and finally tests for drug resistance...
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General Public
2011
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 treatment of latent tuberculosis...
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2011
This fact sheet provides information on targeted tuberculin testing. It explains how to interpret tuberculin skin test (TST) results, including special considerations.
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2011
This Medscape CDC Expert Video Commentary features Rear Admiral Kenneth Castro, MD discussing the new IGRA guidelines.
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2011
