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Guidelines & Standards
International standards for tuberculosis care
Authors: TB CARE I/ UNAIDS
Number of pages: 92
Publication date: 2014
Languages: English
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Standards for TB Care in India
Authors: Central TB Division and WHO Country Office for India
Number of pages: 78
Publication date: 2014
Languages: English
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Tuberculosis Diagnostics in 2015: Landscape, Priorities, Needs, and Prospects
Authors: The Journal of Infectious Diseases
Number of pages: 65
Publication date: 2015
Languages: English
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Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A survival guide for clinicians
Authors: Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC)
Number of pages: 324
Publication date: 2016
Languages: English
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Guidelines on extra-pulmonary tuberculosis for India
Authors: World Health Organization, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Government of India
Number of pages: 134
Publication date: 2016
Languages: English
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Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Adults and Children
Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines
Authors: Lewinsohn et al.
Number of pages: 33
Publication date: 2016
Languages: English
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Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis
Official American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines
Authors: Nahid et al.
Number of pages: 49
Publication date: 2016
Languages: English
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Articles
- Testing and Treating the Missing Millions with Tuberculosis (Pai & Dewan, 2015)
- Management of latent tuberculosis infection: An evidence-based approach (Pai & Rodrigues, 2014)
- Tuberculosis control needs a complete and patient-centric solution (Pai & Yadav & Anupindi, 2014)
- Achieving Systemic and Scalable Private Sector Engagement in Tuberculosis Care and Prevention in Asia (Wells et al., 2015)
- Quality of tuberculosis care in India: a systematic review (Satyanarayana et al., 2015)
- Tuberculosis Care in India: How Can Private Practitioners Make a Difference? (Ratnavelu & Pai, 2015)
- Delays in diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in India: a systematic review (Sreeramareddy et al., 2014)
- Use of Xpert MTB/RIF in Decentralized Public Health Settings and Its Effect on Pulmonary TB and DR-TB Case Finding in India (Sachdeva et al., 2015)
- Piloting Upfront Xpert MTB/RIF Testing on Various Specimens under Programmatic Conditions for Diagnosis of TB & DR-TB in Paediatric Population (Raizada et al., 2015)
- India should screen all tuberculosis patients for drug resistant disease at diagnosis (Jain, 2015)
- Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study (Das et al., 2015)
- Mismanagement of tuberculosis in India: Causes, consequences, and the way forward (Bhargava et al., 2011)
- Tuberculosis in India (Udwadia, 2015)
- Costs and Consequences of Using Interferon-? Release Assays for the Diagnosis of Active Tuberculosis in India (Little et al., 2015)
- Global Policy Eradicating TB in India (Global Policy and Observer Research Foundation, 2015)
- Antimicrobial resistance and the growing threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis (Pai and Memish, 2016)
- Mind the gap: Time to address implementation gaps in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment (Pai, 2016)
- TB control: challenges and opportunities for India (Pai et al., 2016)
- Management of tuberculosis: 10 common pitfalls to avoid (Satyanarayana et al., 2016)
- The number of privately treated tuberculosis cases in India: an estimation from drug sales data (Arinaminpathy et al., 2016)
- Treatment as diagnosis and diagnosis as treatment: empirical management of presumptive tuberculosis in India (McDowell, Pai 2016)
- Alternative medicine: an ethnographic study of how practitioners of Indian medical systems manage TB in Mumbai (McDowell, Pai 2016)
- Use of standardised patients to assess antibiotic dispensing for tuberculosis by pharmacies in urban India: a cross-sectional study (Satyanarayana et al., 2016)
- Nature Primer: Tuberculosis (Pai et al., 2016). See associated graphic summary
- Tuberculosis Diagnostics: State of the Art and Future Directions (Pai et al., 2016)
- Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection and Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (Pai & Behr, 2016)
Useful Websites
The BCG World Atlas
http://www.bcgatlas.org/
‘This interactive website provides detailed information on current and past BCG policies and practices for over 180 countries. The Atlas is designed to be a useful resource for clinicians, policymakers and researchers alike, providing information that may be helpful for better interpretation of TB diagnostics as well as design of new TB vaccines.’
Evidence-Based TB Diagnosis
http://www.tbevidence.org/
‘Recognizing the growing importance of evidence-based TB diagnosis and policy making, the Stop TB Partnership’s New Diagnostics Working Group has created a new subgroup on Evidence Synthesis for TB Diagnostics. This subgroup supports the development of new systematic reviews, facilitate the development and dissemination of evidence summaries on new diagnostics, and actively promote their use in guideline and policy development processes. This website is one of the contributions of the Evidence Synthesis subgroup.’
The Online TST/IGRA Interpreter
http://www.tstin3d.com/
‘This tool estimates the risk of active tuberculosis for an individual with a tuberculin skin test reaction of ≥5mm, based on his/her clinical profile. It is intended for adults tested with standard tuberculin (5 TU PPDS, or 2 TU RT-23) and/or a commercial Interferon Gamma release assay (IGRA).’
IPAQT Initiative for Promoting Affordable and Quality Tests
http://www.ipaqt.org
‘I-PAQT is an initiative of private laboratories and stakeholders working towards combating tuberculosis in India to ensure quality TB diagnostics tests are made available at access pricing to accredited laboratories that will in turn ensure these tests are made available to the general public at affordable prices.’
TB Online
http://tbonline.info/
‘TB Online is a website for activists, patients, healthcare workers and researchers to learn more about tuberculosis (TB) so that they can work to alleviate and ultimately end the worldwide epidemic.’
Videos & Online Courses
Tuberculosis New Approaches & Developments
8th FIND Symposium at Union World Conference 2015
