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This webpage explains Assembly Bill 2132, which mandates tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment and testing for adult primary care patients in California.

Asian or Pacific Islander persons Black or African American persons Health Professionals Hispanic or Latino persons Non-U.S.-born persons Policy Makers
2025

This webpage provides clinical guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and latent TB infection (LTBI) in Wisconsin, outlining risk assessment, symptom evaluation, testing methods, and treatment protocols. It includes links to CDC resources and encourages use of state and national tools to support accurate diagnosis and effective care...

Health Educators/Communicators Hospitals Nurses Physicians
2025

This guideline provides updated, evidence-based recommendations for diagnosing, treating, and managing latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). It offers practical guidance for healthcare providers and public health programs, including testing options, treatment regimens, and considerations for special populations...

Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Researchers
2025

This information sheet outlines the steps in the tuberculosis (TB) care cascade, from diagnosis to treatment completion. It highlights the importance of accurate testing, adherence to treatment, and use of directly observed therapy to ensure successful outcomes and prevent TB transmission.

Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Researchers
2025

This webpage outlines treatment approaches for both inactive and active tuberculosis (TB), including medication regimens, side effects, adherence tips, and steps to prevent the spread of TB. It emphasizes the importance of taking TB medications as prescribed to ensure successful recovery and protect others...

At Risk Persons General Public Health Educators/Communicators Health Professionals Men Women
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...

Health Professionals Policy Makers Researchers
2024

This webpage highlights groundbreaking research on tuberculosis (TB) bacteria, which reveals that TB exhibits a consistent growth rate throughout its life cycle, defying conventional bacterial growth patterns. The study uncovers new insights into TB’s survival strategies, emphasizing the need for research directly on pathogens to improve treatment approaches...

Health Professionals Researchers
2024

This webpage provides an overview of active tuberculosis (TB) disease and latent TB infection (LTBI), including how TB spreads, symptoms, prevention, and treatment. It highlights key resources, fact sheets, and guidance for both the public and health professionals in Wisconsin.

General Public Health Professionals Persons With LTBI Persons with TB
2024

TB is preventable and treatable, and the world has set the objective of ending the disease by 2030. TB preventive treatment is one of the best ways to keep individuals and families safe from TB, which in turn helps communities become—and remain—TB free. Read more in this report.

2022

This fact sheet provides an overview what the TB Elimination Alliance is, what it does, and the mini-grant program's efforts.

Asian or Pacific Islander persons Community Based Organizations
2022

Raise awareness about the link between LTBI and TB disease, address misperceptions, decrease stigma, and encourage and facilitate testing and treatment for LTBI and TB. Increase awareness of the recommended shorter treatment regimen for LTBI. Create a culturally and linguistically appropriate LTBI and TB education, training and community engagement resources and activities that resonate with high priority AA and NH/PI communities...

At Risk Persons
2021

Infographic for New York City citizens on how to stop TB.

General Public
2021

The revised guidelines includes recommendations for specific administrative controls, environmental controls, and respiratory protection controls.

Community Based Organizations Health Educators/Communicators Nurses Physicians
2020

Since January of 2016, we have seen an increase of multidrug-resistance tuberculosis (MDR TB) in Minnesota. The severe increase in these rates is due to an MDR TB outbreak within the Hmong community of the east metro. What is very concerning about this outbreak is that it is not regular TB, but MDR TB...

2018

This handbook is a reference tool for use by national tuberculosis (TB) program managers, clinicians and nurses, public health decision-makers and technical and implementing partners committed to the prevention, care, diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant TB.

Community Based Organizations Health Educators/Communicators International Agencies
2014