Tuberculosis
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Additional Resources
Core Curriculum on Tuberculosis: What the Clinician Should Know | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
This document is intended for use as a reference manual for clinicians caring for persons with or at high risk for TB disease or infection
Self-Study Modules on Tuberculosis (Modules 1-5)
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – A course that provides basic information on TB for health care staff who work on the frontlines of TB prevention and control. The course consists of five modules on the following topics: Transmission and Pathogenesis of Tuberculosis, Epidemiology of Tuberculosis, Targeted Testing and the Diagnosis of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) and Tuberculosis Disease, Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI) and Tuberculosis Disease, and Infectiousness and Infection Control.
TB Prevention in the HIV-infected Patient: Screening, Testing, and Treatment of Latent TB Infection | (2011)
Curry International Tuberculosis Center
Preventing and Addressing Tuberculosis among People Experiencing Homelessness (2014)
United States Interagency Council on Homelessness Fact Sheet
Counting the Homeless: A Previously Incalculable Tuberculosis Risk and Its Social Determinants | (2013)
American Journal of Public Health
Tuberculosis Drug Information Guide, 2nd edition | (2012)
Francis J. Curry International Tuberculosis Center, California Department of Public Health
Tuberculosis Infection Control: A Practical Manual for Preventing TB (2011)
Curry International Tuberculosis Center – The Tuberculosis Infection Control Manual is designed to provide information about TB infection control to homeless shelters, clinics, hospitals and others. It provides consistent and current information about the guidelines and regulations pertaining to TB infection control, methods of reducing the risk of TB infection, and facility-specific guidelines for reducing the risk and dealing with potential TB exposure.
Shelters & TB: What Staff Need to Know, Second Edition (2011)
Curry International Tuberculosis Center – An 18-minute video and viewer’s guide (PDF) designed to help homeless shelter staff create a healthy and safe environment. The video helps train staff about how to prevent the spread of TB in homeless shelters. It describes what TB is, how it is spread, what to do when you suspect someone has TB, how to develop and implement a TB infection control policy, and how you and your local health department can work together to create a healthy and safe environment for staff and clients. The accompanying viewer’s guide expands on the content covered in the video and serves as a reference guide containing additional information, resources, templates, and checklists to help establish your shelter’s TB infection control policy.
Comorbid TB and HIV in a Chronically Homeless Male: Social Isolation Compounds Stress of Medical Confinement | (2006)
This case report by HCH clinicians in Baltimore is a reminder that relationship building, coordination of care by multiple providers, and maintaining contact with clients during and after medical confinement are key in assuring treatment adherence and progress toward resolving homelessness. It also points to the special vulnerabilities of people experiencing homelessness with infectious diseases, whose coping mechanisms may exacerbate their social isolation and interfere with efforts to provide appropriate medical care.
The Health Care of Homeless Persons: A Manual of Communicable Diseases & Common Problems in Shelters & on the Streets | (2004)
This easy-to-use and read manual is designed for clinicians and shelter staff. Sections cover communicable diseases and infections, major medications, heat-related conditions and cold-related injuries, emerging challenges, management of chronic illnesses, immunizations, food management in shelters and soup kitchens, and fact sheets in English and Spanish for clients. The manual includes a chapter on tuberculosis.