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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S: Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
This is an authoritative site for "frequently asked
questions" on tuberculosis, calendar of events, tuberculosis
notes, newsletter, other educational materials plus links to
related websites.
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/default.htm
Evidence-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis
The site is a comprehensive source of evidence synthesis, policies, guidelines and research agendas on TB diagnosis. It is also a source for complete up-to-date information on current TB diagnostics developments. Also available are standard operating procedures and package inserts for several tests and related Internet links. It is a collaborative project of the Stop TB Partnership's New Diagnostics Working Group, the WHO and numerous other partners.
http://tbevidence.org/
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD) (Focus on Low-Income Countries) (French, Spanish)
Besides information on the Union and its programs, the IUATLD
website provides numerous full-text guides for low-income
countries including Management of Tuberculosis; Management of
Asthma and Best Practice of the Care for Patients with
Tuberculosis: A Guide for Low-Income Countries. These and
more guides are accessible at
http://www.theunion.org/publications/publications.html
as PDF files and some are available in French and Spanish.
http://www.theunion.org
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Tuberculosis (25000+)
This PubMed search will identify all tuberculosis related
free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within
the search results, there are links to the fulltext material.
By repeating this search periodically, you will find new
fulltext artcles that are added to the PubMed database
weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for
most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table
of contents.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22tuberculosis%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20tuberculosis%5BText%20Word%5D%29
Radiographic Manifestations of Tuberculosis (Spanish)
This site is divided into three chapters: basic chest radiographic manifestations, radiographic manifestations of tuberculosis and clinical cases. It contains a glossary and is available in English and Spanish. The site is maintained by the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, U.S.
http://www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/products/tbradiographic.cfm
SA HealthInfo: Tuberculosis (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The South African Medical Research Council has developed this
resource, which contains links to information and links to
international sources of TB information.
http://www.sahealthinfo.org/tb/tb.htm
Stop TB Partnership (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The Stop TB Initiative aims to ensure universal access to TB
information and treatment, protection of vulnerable
populations, and reduction the social and economic burden of
TB. The site includes full-text articles and news updates
plus links to relevant websites.
http://www.stoptb.org/
TB Alliance (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The TB Alliance is a public-private partnership that fosters
the development of new, faster and affordable tuberculosis
medicines. The site describes the organization, its projects
and collaborations and includes the Alliance's newsletter.
The organization is based in New York, Brussels and Cape
Town.
http://www.tballiance.org/home/home.php
TB Education & Training Resources
This website is mainly for providers of health care and
health education, The site provides a searchable database of
materials on TB education, training, and public awareness. It
also contains links to TB related sites, organizations,
funding sources, listservs and digests, and events. Much of
the site is specific to the U.S. but the site also includes
substantial international materials. It is maintained by the
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, Centers for Disease
Control, U.S.
http://www.findtbresources.org/scripts/index.cfm
TB Online Courses
This site offers free access to a series of self-paced online presentations to improve TB control and practice. Some of the content is US-centric and assumes availability of medium- to high-level resources. The courses have been developed by the Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center, U.S.
http://www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/courses/index.cfm
TB Training Tool (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The site contains information on resources for TB training
programmes. The training tools are in various formats with
some available free on the Internet.
http://www.healthinitiative.org/html/tbtraining/index.htm
WHO Publications on Tuberculosis (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This page has links to several invaluable e-books including: Treatment of TB: Guidelines, Multidrug and Extensively Drug-resistant TB, The Global Plan to Stop TB and Global TB Control Report 2010. All the e-books are downloadable as PDF files and are published by the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme, Geneva.
http://www.who.int/tb/publications/en/
WHO: Tuberculosis (TB) (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
Including a description of the work of the WHO 'Stop TB
Department, this is a comprehensive epidemiological site
contains information on the latest tuberculosis facts and
figures. It provides links to fulltext (pdf) files of
numerous WHO clinical and policy documents.Many of the
documents are available in several languages. Ths site also
includes links to related websites.
http://www.who.int/tb/en/
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