21. Tuberculosis (TB)-Topic Overview What is tuberculosis? tuberculosis (TB) is a bacterial infection that is most often found in the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can spread to other parts of the http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/tuberculosis-tb-topic-overview

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23. Stop TB Partnership - Home Page The Stop TB Partnership was established in 2000 to eliminate tuberculosis as a public health problem and ultimately to realize a world free of TB. http://www.stoptb.org/

About the Partnership Stopping Tuberculosis ... TB Day Highlights Partners Forum 2009 Partners' Directory Helpful Links Join the Partnership Join our mailing list Partnership videos Partnership documents ... FAQ Partner Highlight The Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization together with WHO regional and country offices: develops policies, strategies and standards; supports the efforts of WHO Member States; measures progress towards TB targets and assesses national programme performance, financing and impact; promotes research; and facilitates partnerships, advocacy and communication. View their partner profile More partner highlights ... News Stop TB Coordinating Board adopts External Evaluation findings The Coordinating Board of the Stop TB Partnership, during its meeting in Cairo from 6 to 7 May, discussed and formally adopted the findings of the Independent External Evaluation of the Stop TB Partnership completed by MicKinsey and Company. The evaluation contained a number of recommendations on the way forward for the Partnership. These recommendations, along with the Board's decisions on necessary modifications, will be posted on the Web site as soon as possible. World Medical Association to offer on-line training on MDR-TB with support from Eli Lilly and Company 14 May Geneva The World Medical Association and Eli Lilly and Company have announced that they will intensify their collaboration on fighting drug-resistant TB. Lilly has provided the association with a a grant of $998,773 to provide physicians with interactive online training on MDR-TB.

24. Tuberculosis Control This site provides access to information about tuberculosis (TB) disease and prevention in North Carolina. The tuberculosis Control program, located in the http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/tb/

Epidemiology is part of Public Health in North Carolina Topics A-Z Asbestos Biological Agents Registry ... CDC Health Topics This site provides access to information about tuberculosis (TB) disease and prevention in North Carolina. The Tuberculosis Control program, located in the Public Health Division of the NC Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency in combating tuberculosis in the state. Tuberculosis is a communicable, potentially deadly disease that usually affects the lungs but can attack other parts of the body as well. It is spread when a person with an active case of TB breathes out the disease-causing bacteria, which are then inhaled by another person. TB is treatable and usually curable, although new drug-resistant strains are appearing that are very difficult to treat. It is vital that TB patients faithfully follow their treatment regimen and take all medications as directed, for as long as directed, or the disease can recur in a drug-resistant form. In 1950, North Carolina had 89.9 cases of TB for every 100,000 people. In 2003, North Carolina had a TB rate of 4.6 cases per 100,000 persons. Now, the goal of the TB Control program is to reduce tuberculosis disease in North Carolina by the year 2010 to under one case per one million persons, virtually eliminating TB in the state. In order to accomplish this goal, health care providers must:

25. FOXNews.com - Chicago Man Dies From Tuberculosis - Health News | Current Health Chicago Man Dies From tuberculosis, The Cook County, Illinois, medical examiner says a Schiller Park man has died after testing positive for miliary http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336328,00.html

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26. Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment Of Pulmonary Tuberculosi A free collection of articles about tuberculosis published in The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/tube

27. NEJM: Articles On Tuberculosis -- Drug Resistance, Isoniazid, And TB In AIDS The tuberculosis collection covers topics such as drug resistance, isoniazid, and tuberculosis in HIV infection; it includes research articles, case reports http://content.nejm.org/cgi/collection/tuberculosis

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28. Tuberculosis: Overview In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) to be a global health emergency. Today, TB remains one of the world s major causes http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/tb.asp

Overview Facts at a Glance FAQ Libraries ... News Summaries In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared tuberculosis (TB) to be a global health emergency. Today, TB remains one of the world's major causes of illness and death. About one-third of the world's population, or two billion people, carry the TB bacteria, although most never develop active TB disease. An infectious disease, TB has been on the rise since the 1980s, with its spread concentrated in Southeast Asia and Africa. Much of TB's resurgence is directly connected to the HIV/AIDS pandemic especially in Africa where HIV is the most important factor determining the increased incidence of TB. Global access to TB treatment is improving but remains low and the emergence of drug-resistant TB, particularly in settings where many TB patients are also infected with HIV, poses a serious threat to TB control, and confirms the need to strengthen prevention and treatment efforts. State of the Pandemic There were more than 9 million new cases of TB, and approximately 1.7 million deaths from the disease in 2006, the most recent year for which data are available. The World Health Organization estimates that there are more than 14 million people living with TB. In 2006, out of an estimated 9.2 million new TB cases worldwide, 4.1 million were diagnosed by laboratory testing, 710,000 were among people living with HIV and there were 500,000 cases of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB). Of the estimated 1.7 million people who died of TB in 2006, 14% were co-infected with HIV. The U.N. Millennium Development Goals include targets to halve the 1990 TB prevalence and death rates by 2015.

29. Francis J. Curry National TB Center The Francis J. Curry National tuberculosis Center creates, enhances, and disseminates resources and models of excellence to control and eliminate tuberculosis. http://www.nationaltbcenter.edu/

The Francis J. Curry National Tuberculosis Center (CNTC) creates, enhances, and disseminates state-of-the-art resources and models of excellence and performs research to control and eliminate tuberculosis in the United States and Internationally. CNTC develops educational products in a variety of formats to provide learning opportunities, resources and tools for TB programs and providers. CNTC offers training courses for clinicians and public health providers, ranging from one-day workshops to 4-day intensive programs. The CNTC Warmline provides expert TB medical consultation to health care providers: 877-390-6682. CNTC research projects identify, develop, implement, and evaluate public health interventions to prevent, control and eliminate tuberculosis. CNTC promotes the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care and the Patients’ Charter by developing implementation guidelines and training curricula for use in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Survival Guide for Clinicians 2nd Edition now available as download printed book CD-ROM New product: ... Contact Us

30. Vitamin D May Help Fight Tuberculosis, Study Finds | Reuters WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) African immigrants with low levels of vitamin D are much more likely to be infected with tuberculosis, a finding that http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN28469425

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31. Tuberculosis In Victorian England As killers, however, both cholera and typhus were dwarfed by tuberculosis; and tuberculosis scarcely stirred the imagination of any social group in this http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health3.html

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32. USAID Health: Infectious Diseases, Tuberculosis, Overview In 1998, USAID developed a focused program on tuberculosis as part of its new strategy to expand efforts to address infectious and reemerging diseases. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/id/tuberculosis/

Overview Environmental Health Health Systems HIV/AIDS ... Read an Avian Influenza Program Update on Pandemic Planning - November 2007 [PDF, 83KB] Read the March 2008 Edition of the PMI E-Newsletter Report to Congress: Health-Related Research and Development Activities at USAID - June 2006 [PDF, 881KB] Get Acrobat Reader... Web Site People (Last Name) Publications Advanced search options... Contact Global Health Home Our Work ... Overview Tuberculosis A suspected TB patient comes to a health clinic in Kampala, Uganda to give a sputum sample. Source: Gary Hampton/WHO/TBP On January 22, Christy Hanson, TB Research Advisor at USAID, joined a panel discussion held by the Global Health Council, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, and the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics held with leaders in the effort to stop TB and in the work to develop new TB diagnostics for identifying this deadly disease more accurately and quickly. Read full remarks... Overview The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), in close collaboration with global, regional, and developing country partners, is committed to addressing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB), which kills about 1.6 million people annually. Over the past six years the United States has helped provide effective treatment for 10 million people with TB in 78 countries. The U.S. Government, through USAID, is the leading bilateral donor in the world for TB and supports the expansion and strengthening of TB control in 37 countries. Between 2000 and 2006, USAID provided about $500 million to support TB programs worldwide.

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34. Tuberculosis 2007 | A Medical Textbook, 700 Pages tuberculosis 2007 is a medical textbook that provides a comprehensive and upto-date overview of research, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (687 http://www.tuberculosistextbook.com/

Tuberculosis 2007 687 pages Download PDF, 8.3 MB Home Preface 1. History ... About Editors Juan Carlos Palomino Viviana Ritacco Contributing Authors Download PDF 687 pages, 8.3 MB Tuberculosis 2007 free Download Under certain conditions, the editors and the authors of Tuberculosis 2007 Please check the Tuberculosis 2007 was made possible by an unrestricted educational grant provided by Bernd Sebastian Kamps and Patricia Bourcillier Chapter History Molecular Evolution of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Nalin Rastogi and Christophe Sola The Basics of Clinical Bacteriology Genomics and Proteomics Immunology, Pathogenesis, Virulence Host Genetics and Susceptibility Howard E. Takiff Global Burden of Tuberculosis Ernesto Montoro and Rodolfo Rodriguez Tuberculosis caused by Other Members of the M. tuberculosis Complex Angel Cataldi and Maria Isabel Romano Molecular Epidemiology: Breakthrough Achievements and Future Prospects Dick van Soolingen, Kristin Kremer, and Peter W.M. Hermans New Vaccines against Tuberculosis Biosafety and Hospital Control Maria Alice Telles and Afranio Kritski Conventional Diagnostic Methods Jacobus H. de Waard and Jaime Robledo

35. Tuberculosis - WrongDiagnosis.com tuberculosis information including symptoms, diagnosis, misdiagnosis, treatment, causes, patient stories, videos, forums, prevention, and prognosis. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/t/tuberculosis/intro.htm

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36. Tuberculosis Provides overview of tuberculosis (TB), and tests related to the diagnosis and monitoring of TB. http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/tuberculosis.html

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37. Hardin MD : Tuberculosis / TB From the University of Iowa, the *best* lists of Internet sources in tuberculosis. http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/tuberculosis.html

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38. Wisconsin Tuberculosis Program tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria can attack any part of the body, but they usually http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/tb/

Topics A-Z Reference Center Search Home ... West Nile Virus Wisconsin Tuberculosis Program Tuberculosis, or TB, is a disease caused by bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The bacteria can attack any part of the body, but they usually attack the lungs. People who are infected with TB do not feel sick, do not have any symptoms, and cannot spread TB. If untreated, however, they may develop TB disease and be able to spread it some time in the future. People with TB disease can be treated and cured if they seek medical help. Even better, people who have TB infection but are not yet sick can take medicine so that they will never develop TB disease. Learn more about the Wisconsin TB Program , or choose any of the links found on this page. Resources for Providers Resources for Patients Statistics TB Forms ... TB Home IMPORTANT NEWS QuantiFERON -TB GOLD Test Fact Sheet (Exit DHFS) Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005 MMWR 2005; 54 (No. RR-17, 1-141) (Exit DHFS) Infection Control in Health Care Settings-CDC fact sheet (Exit DHFS) Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC MMWR 2005; 54 (No. RR-15, 1-37)

39. Tuberculosis - Definition From The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Definition of tuberculosis from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tuberculosis

Home Visit Our Sites Unabridged Dictionary Learner's Dictionary ... Contact Us Also Visit: Unabridged Encyclopedia Britannica Visual ESL: Learner's for Kids: Spell It! Word Central Dictionary Thesaurus Spanish/English Medical Search "tuberculosis" in: Thesaurus Spanish/English Medical Dictionary Open Dictionary Browse words next to: tuberculosis Browse the Dictionary: A B C D ... Z tuberculosis One entry found. tuberculosis Main Entry: Pronunciation: Function: noun Inflected Form(s): plural Etymology: New Latin Date:  a highly variable communicable disease of humans and some other vertebrates that is caused by the tubercle bacillus and rarely in the United States by a related mycobacterium ( Mycobacterium bovis ), that affects especially the lungs but may spread to other areas (as the kidney or spinal column), and that is characterized by fever, cough, difficulty in breathing, formation of tubercles , caseation, pleural effusions, and fibrosis Learn more about "tuberculosis" and related topics at Britannica.com Find Jobs in Your City Pronunciation Symbols Share this entry: Link to this page: Cite this page: Products Premium Services Company Info Contact Us ... Merriam-Webster, Incorporated

40. Tuberculosis (TB) - Minnesota Dept. Of Health tuberculosis, or “TB,” is a serious disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB can attack any part of the body, but most often it http://www.health.state.mn.us/tb

dqmcodebase = "/script/" Tuberculosis TB Home TB Basics TB Statistics For Local Public Health Depts. ... TB Worldwide More From MDH Infectious Diseases and Conditions A-Z TB Awareness and Treatment ECHO-TV Program Free DVDs Tuberculosis (TB) Mycobacterium tuberculosis . TB can attack any part of the body, but most often it affects the lungs. TB can spread when someone with active TB of the lungs or voicebox coughs, yells, sneezes, or talks and others breathe in the bacteria. People are most likely to become infected with TB if they spend many hours in close contact with someone with TB disease; brief contact usually does not lead to infection. There are two phases of TB: latent TB infection and active TB disease. Both phases can be treated with medication. Only persons with active TB disease can spread TB germs to others. In Minnesota, 238 cases of active TB disease were reported in 2007. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has a TB Prevention and Control Program, which collaborates with clinicians and local health departments throughout Minnesota to ensure that persons with TB receive effective and timely treatment and that contact investigations are performed to minimize the spread of TB.

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