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A resource guide and toolkit for strengthening TB elimination strategies through partnerships. The booklet is a printed version of the guide and toolkit. The CD ROM includes the guide (in PDF format) and toolkit (in PDF and Word formats that can be adapted for local use). The CD ROM can also be ordered separately.

A six-page color brochure designed to educate the general public about the status of the TB epidemic in the U.S.

CD ROM containing TB educational materials, major TB guidelines, MMWRs, surveillance reports, and slide sets.

An interactive, skill-building guide designed to improve the knowledge and proficiency of TB staff responsible for conducting the TB interview. Guide is intended for facilitators who will be conducting TB interviewing courses.

A series of 4 modules, including an overview of the TB interview for contact investigations, basics of communication and patient education, cultural competency, and special interview circumstances.

This 67-minute video demonstrates successful interviewing strategies with TB patients and is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care workers who are responsible for conducting TB interviews with patients as part of contact investigations.

67-minute video/DVD demonstrates successful interviewing strategies with TB patients and is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care workers who are responsible for conducting TB interviews with patients as part of contact investigations

This 67-minute video demonstrates successful interviewing strategies with TB patients and is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care workers who are responsible for conducting TB interviews with patients as part of contact investigations.

This 22-minute DVD brings the cohort review process to life, illustrates the benefits of adopting cohort review, and highlights the roles of the cohort review team members.

This booklet provides recommendations on targeted tuberculin testing, treatment of LTBI, and clinical monitoring.

This four-page color brochure is designed to educate staff of AIDS service organizations about TB and encourage them to collaborate with their local TB control program.

The Core Curriculum is intended for use as a self-study guide or reference manual for clinicians and other public health professionals caring for people with or at high risk for TB disease or infection. In addition, the Core Curriculum includes a slide set designed to be useful in developing educational programs. The Core Curriculum was revised in 2011 to reflect new guidelines for TB prevention, treatment, testing, diagnosis, and patient management and public health practice.

Ruler to use in measuring test reaction

Wall chart of steps and procedures in skin testing.

Includes DVD, facilitator guide, and ruler.

A series of five modules covering epidemiology, transmission and pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment of TB infection and TB disease, and infection control.

A continuation of the Self Study Modules on TB series, these four new modules cover contact investigations, confidentiality, TB surveillance and case management in hospitals and institutions, and patient adherence.

Poster listing the symptoms of TB.

This is a 76-page plan developed by the Federal TB Task Force to guide implementation at the federal level of the recommendations in the IOM report, outlining specific agency roles and detailed action steps..

This 62-page document is CDC's response to the IOM's TB elimination challenge.

Booklet on TB transmission, skin test, and treatment, including DOT and side effects of medications.

Booklet on TB transmission, treatment for TB disease, and how to communicate with family and friends about TB.
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Booklet on TB infection, including the TB skin test, treatment, and adherence to medication.
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Fact sheet on the basics of the TB skin test.
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Booklet on how to protect family and friends against TB and how to talk to a healthcare worker during a contact investigation.
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Booklet about the importance of treating TB infection and TB and disease when a person is also infected with HIV.
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Booklet about treatment and ways to adhere to medication regimens for TB infection and TB disease.
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One-page pamphlet on basic facts about TB transmission, infection, and the tuberculin test.

One-page pamphlet on the risk of HIV-related TB, tuberculin testing, and preventive therapy.

Describes how TB is spread and the difference between latent TB infection and TB disease.

Single sheet (8 ½ x 11”) duplicating the Stop TB Poster

Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection — United States, 2010
MMWR 2010; 59 (No. RR-5);1-25

Treatment of Tuberculosis
MMWR, 6/20/03.
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Targeted Tubercin Testing and Treatment of Latent TB Infection. MMWR, 6/9/00; and Update: Adverse Event Data and Revised American Thoracic Society/ CDC Recommendations Against the Use of Rifampin and Pyrazinamide for Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection.
MMWR, 2003.
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Plan to Combat Extensively Drug-Resistant TB
MMWR, 02/13/2009.
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Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings.
MMWR, 12/28/2005.

Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Person with Infectious TB: Recommendations of NTCA and CDC; and Guidelines for Using the Quantiferon TB Gols Test for Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
MMWR, 12/16/2005.
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National Plan for Reliable Tuberculosis Laboratory Service Using a Systems Approach.
MMWR, 4/15/05.
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Preventing and Controlling Tuberculosis Along the U.S. - Mexico Border.
MMWR, 1/19/01.
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Diagnostic Standards and Classification of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children. Reprint from the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
MMWR, April 2000.
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Tuberculosis Elimination Revisited: Obstacles, Opportunities, and a Renewed Commitment.
MMWR, 08/13/99.
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