TB Notes Newsletter

No. 3, 2004

Table of Contents

Introduction

Highlights from State and Local Programs

• Daily Accountability and Innovative Methods That Push Performance and Achieve Higher Outcomes
• LTBI Program Implementation in a Substance Abuse Treatment Facility
• Missouri’s TB Awareness Fortnight
• The Clinical Management and Outcome of Nail Salon–Acquired Mycobacterium fortuitum Skin Infections
• Foreign-Nation TB Information Packets Prove Useful for New Hampshire Patients and Staff Members

EIS Conference a Success for DTBE

Tuberculosis and Civic Learning

Information on Safer Medical Devices for Placing the Tuberculin Skin Test

National TB Nurse Consultant Coalition, June 2004

TB Education and Training Network (TB ETN)

• Member Highlight
• Cultural Competency Subcommittee Update
• TB ETN Pin Design Contest Winner

Update from the Clinical and Health Systems Research Branch

• TB Trials Consortium Update

Updates from the Communications, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch

• Benefits of Using the TB Information CD-ROM
• Mini-Fellowship Update
• Find Your Way to www.findtbresources.org

International Update

• International Childhood Tuberculosis Initiatives

Updates from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Outbreak Investigations Branch

• SUN Team Activities
• The TB Program Area Module Project for National Surveillance
• National TB Surveillance System Update: Public Use Data Set Implementation

Training and Educational Materials

New CDC Publications

Personnel Notes

Calendar of Events

Note: The use of trade names in this issue is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the Public Health Service or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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