Tuberculosis Control and Refugee Health Program
Information for Health Care Professionals
For more information send us an email or phone 619-692-5565.
The County of San Diego TB Control Program offers the following classes, training and educational materials for health care professionals throughout the county.
Local Resources for Clinicians
- Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) Information for Physicians
- Testing and Treatment Recommendations for Individuals Exposed to Active TB Disease
- San Diego Tuberculosis Risk Assessment
Federal Resources for Clinicians
- Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs)
- WebTB (A Resource for Researchers)
- TB Core Curriculum: What the Clinician Should Know
-
TSTin3d.com (An online TB risk calculator)
- CDC Mobile App for Latent TB Infection: CDC’s latest LTBI recommendations on an iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch or Android.
One-page Clinic Fact Sheets for Patient Education
| • TB Skin Test | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • Negative TB Skin Test | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • Positive TB Skin Test | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • TB Infection | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • TB Disease and Treatment | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • 3-Month Follow-up Skin Test | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • TB & HIV | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • TB & the BCG Vaccine | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • Home Isolation Program (HIP) | English | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese |
| • The TST and your Immune System | English | Spanish | ||
| • The TST Result and your Immune System | English | Spanish | ||
| • Taking Care of your Arm after the TST | English | Spanish |
Brochures
| • TB: Get the Facts | English | Spanish | Tagalog | |
| • Treating TB Infection | English | Spanish | ||
| • The Connection between TB and HIV | English | Spanish | ||
| • TB Services | English | Spanish | ||
| • "How did my child become infected with TB?" | English | Spanish | ||
| • "I May Be Infected with the TB Germ" | English | Spanish | Tagalog | |
| • TB & Queso Fresco | English | Spanish |
English/Spanish Fact Sheets
Media Resources
Video and other media information about Tuberculosis and other diseases offered in multiple languages.
Health Roads Media Video Library
Refugee Health Information Network
For more information send us an email or phone 619-692-5565.
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