Tuberculosis Prevention and Control

Publications and Educational Materials

• Educational Resources
• Guidelines & Standards
• National TB Conferences/ Workshop Reports
• Travel Health
• Publications and conference presentations by the Public Health Agency of Canada Tuberculosis Prevention and Control staff

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Educational Resources

• A Historical Video - Canadian Lung Association's involvement in Tuberculosis Prevention and Control
• Life and Breath: Respiratory Disease in Canada
• Compendium of Latent Tuberculosis Infection (LTBI)
  Prevalence rates in Canada
• Long R. The Canadian Lung Association/Canadian Thoracic Society and tuberculosis prevention and control . Can Respir J Oct 2007;14(7):427-431.
  
• International Tuberculosis Incidence Rates
• BCG Vaccine Usage in Canada - Current and Historical (Updated: October 2007)
• Costs for Tuberculosis Care in Canada, Copyright 2006 D. Menzies MD, (October 2006)
• Presentation-style figures based on the 2005 Tuberculosis data. (Slides)
• An algorithm to aid interpretation of the tuberculin skin test(available in English only)
• Recognition of BCG Scars. Hershfield E, Roche B. Tuberculosis Research Unit, University of Manitoba, 2004.
• Tuberculosis Images:
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • World Lung Foundation
• International Cultural Profiles
• Management of a Tuberculosis Exposure in an Oncology Hospital. Canada Communicable Disease Report. (CCDR). 2005 July 15;31-14.
• Stop TB Canada Newsletter
• Teaching Kits: HIV/AIDS, STDs, TB and Hepatitis. Chee Mamuk, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (December 2004)
• What is Tuberculosis? Ontario Lung Association
• TB Advocacy Report 2003: The Human Face of TB. WHO
• Special Reports from the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee
  • Tuberculosis Among the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, 2000 to 2004
  • Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in Canada (2003)
  • Drug Resistant Tuberculosis Among the Foreign-born in Canada (2002)
  • Paediatric Tuberculosis in Canada (2001)
  • Tuberculosis among the Foreign-Born in Canada (2000)
  • Tuberculosis in Canadian-born Aboriginal Peoples (1999)
• Canadian Medical Association Journal Tuberculosis Series (13 articles), 1999-2000. (February 2000)
• TB Education and Training Resource Guide, CDC National Prevention Information Network
• TB Education and Training Resources, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, CDC
• TB Education and Training Network, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, CDC

Guidelines & Standards

• An Advisory Committee Statement (ACS)
  Canadian Tuberculosis Committee (CTC)
  Updated Recommendations on Interferon Gamma Release Assays for Latent Tuberculosis Infection
  ACS- 6 - October 2008
• Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 6th Edition 2007
• Update for Clinical Trial Sponsors: Requirements for Tuberculosis Screening of Healthy Volunteers in Phase I Clinical Trials involving Immunosuppressant Drugs or Drugs with Immunosuppressant Properties
• An Advisory Committee Statement
  (ACS-9) : Housing conditions that serve as risk factors for tuberculosis infection and disease Canadian Tuberculosis Committee
• Guidelines regarding departure from Canada of persons with suspected respiratory tuberculosis (TB), untreated active respiratory TB or partially treated active respiratory TB - (Version 2006.07.18)
• International Standards for Tuberculosis Care and the Patients Charter for Tuberculosis Care (World Care Council) (April 2006)
• Statement on Bacille Calmette Guérin (BCG) Vaccine. CCDR 2004 Dec 1;30(ACS-5).
• Screening immigrants to Canada for tuberculosis: Chest radiography or tuberculin skin testing? CMAJ Nov 11, 2003;169(10).
• Recommendations for the Screening and Prevention of Tuberculosis in Patients with HIV and the Screening for HIV in Tuberculosis Patients and Their Contacts. Advisory Committee Statement, CCDR 2002 December;28 (ACS-7).
• Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Material Safety Data Sheet - Infectious Substances. Office of Laboratory Safety. Health Canada. 2001 March.
• Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Tuberculosis in Canadian Health Care Facilities and other Institutional Settings. CCDR 1996 April;22S1.

National TB Conferences/ Workshop Reports

• Proceedings of the National Consensus Conference on Tuberculosis December 3-5, 1997. CCDR. 1998 June;24S2.
• National Consultation on the role of LCDC in Tuberculosis Prevention and Control (1994)

Travel Health

• Chapter 13 (see section on: Travelers) Canadian Tuberculosis Standards - 6th Edition (2007)
• WHO TB and Air Travel Guidelines - 3rd Edition (2008)
• Reporting Form for a Passenger with Infectious TB on an Aircraft
• The risk and prevention of TB in Travellers. CCDR 1997 Nov;23(ACS-5).
• Tuberculosis screening and the international traveller. CCDR 1996 Sept; 22-18.
• Travel Medicine Program www.TravelHealth.gc.ca
• International Travel and Health, WHO