Active TB Disease

• Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children and Adults, CDC (PDF)
  Official statement of the American Thoracic Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Published 2017

• Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A Survival Guide for Clinicians, 3rd edition, 2016, USCF
  Resource guide for clinicians managing the patient with drug-resistant TB.

• Clinical Practice Guidelines: Treatment of Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis, CID
  Guidelines for treatment of TB disease. An official statement of the American Thoracic Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Published August 2016.

• Tuberculosis Hospital Discharge Planning Checklist (PDF)
  Recommendations to address before discharging a patient with active TB disease from the hospital.

• Hepatotoxicity of Antituberculosis Therapy, American Thoracic Society, 2006
  An official statement from the American Thoracic Society.

• Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Selected Pathogens in Minnesota
  This "antibiogram" provides drug-specific data on the prevalence of antimicrobial susceptibilities of selected pathogens, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, in Minnesota.

• First-Line Drug Susceptibility Results for TB Cases by Country and Region of Birth, Minnesota, 2012-2016 (PDF)
  Updated 06/2017

• Minnesota Department of Health, Public Health Laboratory