This report provides an early analysis of cases of tuberculosis (TB) disease reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during 2024 as compared with previous years. CDC used U.S. Census Bureau population estimates to calculate rates (cases per 100,000 persons) of TB disease.
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2025
This fact sheet provides a detailed comparison of tuberculosis (TB) treatment regimens, encompassing both drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB.
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2025
This report outlines the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' (NIAID) updated strategic plan to combat tuberculosis. It focuses on four key priorities: enhancing fundamental knowledge of TB, advancing diagnostic research, accelerating vaccine development, and supporting strategies to treat and prevent TB...
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2024
The resource provides recommendations for the programmatic management of tuberculosis preventive treatment. Modules of the WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis are complemented by matching modules of the WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis.
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2020
The operational handbook provides information on how to implement the WHO recommendations, tools, job-aids, and monitoring and evaluation indicators for the programmatic management of tuberculosis preventive treatment. The Module 1 handbook complements Module 1 of the WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis...
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2020
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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2020
This info sheet summarizes the updated 2020 LTBI treatment guidelines that apply to persons with LTBI who live in the United States
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Health Professionals
2020
This resource presents a method of assessing and updating laboratory procedures to assist in detecting TB early by reducing lab turnaround time for reporting positive smear, culture, identification, and susceptibility results.
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Lab Personnel
2019
This webpage provides a brief overview on what health department staff need to know abut the TB Technical Instructions. Technical Instructions are the requirements that civil surgeons and panel physicians must follow when evaluating persons as part of their application process.
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Civil Surgeons
2019
This infographic presents updated recommendations for TB screening, testing, and treatment of health care personnel.
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2019
This document informs national TB programs and stakeholders about the key implications for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This resource is available before the release of the updated guidelines in order for planning at the country level. The guidelines are expected to be released in 2020...
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2019
In this video CDC's Dr. LoBue discussing the updated recommendations for the 12-dose treatment regimen for latent TB infection.
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2018
The book provides basic information on the use of the public health and clinical laboratories in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients with latent tuberculosis infection(LTBI) and tuberculosis(TB) disease.
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2018
These new guidelines supersede previous WHO policy documents on the management of LTBI in people living with HIV, household contacts of people with active TB, other groups at risk of developing TB, and for LTBI testing. The consolidated guidelines are expected to provide the basis and rationale for the development of national guidelines for LTBI management, adapted to the national and local epidemiology of TB, the availability of resources, the health infrastructure and other national and local determinants...
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2018
This handbook focuses specifically on three technologies that are being widely used to help TB patients complete their treatment over the many months that their regimens last.
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2018
