Also called: Also called: TB

Start Here

• Tuberculosis(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/tuberculosis/htm/index.htm

  Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/tuberculosisspanish/htm/index.htm

• Tuberculosis (TB)(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/Understanding/overview.htm

• Tuberculosis: Getting Healthy, Staying Healthy(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - Large PDF file - http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/Understanding/PDF/TB.pdf

  Also available in Spanish http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/Understanding/PDF/LaTuberculosis.pdf

Overviews

• Questions and Answers about TB(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/faqs/default.htm

• Tuberculosis(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/tuberculosis/DS00372/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print

Latest News

• U.S. Immigrants Bearing More of the Tuberculosis Burden(07/22/2008, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_67251.html

• Repeat Tuberculosis Test Urged for Kids Adopted from Overseas(07/11/2008, Reuters Health) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66844.html

• Tuberculosis Outbreaks May Be Predicted by First 2 Cases(07/01/2008, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_66456.html

• More News on Tuberculosis http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/alphanews_t.html#tuberculosis

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• AFB Smear and Culture(American Association for Clinical Chemistry) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/afb_culture/test.html

• Chest X Ray(National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/cxray/cxray_whatis.html

• Chest X-Ray (Radiography)(American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America) - http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=chestrad&bhcp=1

  Also available in Spanish http://www.radiologyinfo.org/sp/info.cfm?pg=chestrad

• Diagnosis of Tuberculosis Disease(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/diagnosis.htm

• QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/QFT.htm

• Tuberculosis: Learn the Signs and Symptoms of TB Disease(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/Features/TBsymptoms/

Treatment

• Staying on Track with TB Medicine(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - Large PDF file - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/pamphlets/TB_trtmnt.pdf

• Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/treatmentLTBI.htm

• Tuberculosis: Treatment of Tuberculosis Infection(American Academy of Family Physicians) - http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/infections/common/bacterial/120.printerview.html

  Also available in Spanish http://familydoctor.org/online/famdoces/home/common/infections/common/bacterial/120.printerview.html

• Why New Drugs Now?(Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development) - http://www.tballiance.org/why/tb-threat.php

Prevention/Screening

• BCG (Bacille Calmette-GuĂ©rin) Vaccine(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/bcg.htm

• TB Skin Test(American Association for Clinical Chemistry) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/tb_skin/test.html

• Tuberculosis Skin Test(American Lung Association) - http://www.lungusa.org/site/apps/nl/content3.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=2060731&content_id={E017092A-511A-4871-8EAE-17988C696509}¬oc=1

Specific Conditions

• Difference Between Latent TB Infection and Active TB Disease(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/LTBIandActiveTB.htm

• Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (XDR TB)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/

  Also available in Spanish http://www.cdc.gov/tb/xdrtb/es/

• Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis(American Lung Association) - http://www.lungusa.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=2060263&content_id={0A97BBED-CF3C-42A8-9A2E-7368B71FB805}¬oc=1

Related Issues

• About Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM)(National Jewish Health) - http://www.nationaljewish.org/disease-info/diseases/nts-mycobac/about/index.aspx

• HealthCare Wide Hazards: Tuberculosis(Occupational Safety and Health Administration) - http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/hospital/hazards/tb/tb.html

• Protecting the Public's Health against Tuberculosis: Moving Forward(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/news/2007/07/tuberculosis.html

• Tuberculosis: Health Information for International Travel(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBookCh4-TB.aspx

• Tuberculosis: The Connection between TB and HIV (the AIDS Virus)(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/pamphlets/tbandhiv_eng.htm

Tutorials

• Tuberculosis(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials/tuberculosis/htm/index.htm

  Also available in Spanish http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/tutorials/tuberculosisspanish/htm/index.htm

Games

• Play the Tuberculosis Game(Nobel Foundation) - Requires Flash Player - http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/tuberculosis/

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Tuberculosis(National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Tuberculosis%22

Research

• Smoking May Be a Risk Factor for Tuberculosis(American Medical Association) - http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ8W2P1TYE&sub_cat=0

• Tuberculosis (TB)(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) - http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/tuberculosis/default.htm

Journal Articles

• Article: Initial drug resistance and tuberculosis treatment outcomes: systematic review and... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18626051&tool=MedlinePlus

• Article: Tuberculosis vaccine development: goals, immunological design, and evaluation. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18620952&tool=MedlinePlus

• Article: CT differentiation of anthracofibrosis from endobronchial tuberculosis. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18562754&tool=MedlinePlus

• Tuberculosis -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=(tuberculosis[majr]+NOT+(latent[text]+OR+tuberculosis,multidrug+resistant[majr]))+AND+english[la]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+(jsubsetk[text]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt]+OR+jsubsetn[text]+OR+jsubsetaim[text]+OR+review[pt]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus

• Latent tuberculosis -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=(tuberculosis[mh]+AND+latent[text])+AND+english[la]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+(review[pt]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt]+OR+jsubsetaim[text]+OR+jsubsetn[text])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus

• Multidrug resistant tuberculosis -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=tuberculosis,multidrug+resistant[majr]+AND+english[la]+AND+humans[mh]+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&to! ol=MedlinePlus

Medical Encyclopedia

• Tuberculosis - http://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v:project=medlineplus&binning-state=group%3d%3dMedical%20Encyclopedia&query=Tuberculosis

Dictionaries/Glossaries

• Glossary of Terms Related to TB(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/faqs/qa_glossary.htm

Directories

• State TB Control Offices(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tboffices.htm

Organizations

• American Lung Association - http://www.lungusa.org/

• National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of STD Prevention(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/std/

• National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/

Statistics

• State Profiles: HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/stateprofiles/usmap.htm

• TB Elimination: Now Is the Time!(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/nowisthetime/default.htm

• Trends in Tuberculosis, 2006 - United States(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/TBTrends.htm

• U.S. Tuberculosis Cases at an All-Time Low in 2005, but Drug Resistance Increasing(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/fs060323.htm

Children

• Pediatric Tuberculosis(American Lung Association) - http://www.lungusa.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=2060321&content_id={2CC5A8C0-3B21-45A9-818B-768F5D36192D}¬oc=1

• Tuberculosis(Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/tuberculosis.html

Teenagers

• Tuberculosis(Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/tuberculosis.html

Women

• Tuberculosis and Pregnancy(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) - http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/tbfactsheets/pregnancy.htm

You may also be interested in these MedlinePlus related pages:

• Infections - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/infections.html

• Lungs and Breathing - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/lungsandbreathing.html

The primary NIH organization for research on Tuberculosis is the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - http://www.niaid.nih.gov/

Tuberculosis - Multiple Languages - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/tuberculosis.html