TB Education and Training Resource Guide—INTERNET RESOURCES (Printable Version)

The Internet is a rich source of information about TB. This section presents select Internet sites that provide information on TB and related health issues and sites that link users directly to TB-related journals and newsletters.

Disclaimer: The information in the Tuberculosis Education and Training Resource Guide is made available as a public service. Neither CDC nor NPIN endorses the organizations and materials represented. It is the responsibility of the user to evaluate this information prior to use based on individual needs and community standards.

American Lung Association—www.lungusa.org/diseases/lungtb.html
This Website answers frequently asked questions about the causes of TB infection and TB disease, and about TB testing and treatment.

American Thoracic Society (ATS)—www.thoracic.org
This site provides online access to ATS journals: the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and the American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology. It also provides practice tips for providers, information on educational opportunities, and tools for advocating for federal and state respiratory health issues.

Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations—www.aapcho.org
This Website provides contact information for a TB guide developed by the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations. It also offers publications on TB in a variety of Asian languages.

Brown University TB/HIV Research Laboratory—www.brown.edu/Research/TB-HIV_Lab
This Website provides information on Brown University's TB and HIV research, prevention, and treatment activities.

Canada's Role in Fighting Tuberculosis—www.lung.ca/tb
This Website provides general information about TB and discusses the history of TB and its status today in Canada.

Case Western Reserve Tuberculosis Research Unit—www.tbresearchunit.org
This Website provides information on Case Western's TB prevention and research activities-including their work in epidemiology, immunology, and microbiology; their specimen repository and coordinating center; and their eight affiliated research sites.

CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE)—www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb
The DTBE Website includes major TB guidelines, TB-related MMWRs, and Surveillance Reports. It also offers online ordering of educational materials, links to other TB-related sites, and answers to frequently asked questions. The site's "What's New" section highlights recent publications, products, reports, and events.

CDC En Espan~ol—www.cdc.gov/spanish/enfermedades/tb.htm
This Website provides general TB information in Spanish, including information on TB disease and TB infection.

CDC Fast Stats: Tuberculosis—www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/tb.htm
This Web page provides data compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics about TB in the United States.

CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report—www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html
This site offers a searchable index of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWRs). The MMWR series, prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a key vehicle for disseminating prevention, control, screening, and treatment guidelines.

CDC National Center for Infectious Diseases (NCID)—www.cdc.gov/ncidod
NCID works to prevent illness, disability, and death caused by infectious diseases in the United States and around the world. NCID's online journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases (www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/index.htm), published six times a year, offers scientific articles about emerging infectious diseases, including TB. NCID's Tuberculosis/Mycobacteriology Branch Website (ww.cdc.gov/ncidod/dastlr/TB/default.htm) provides information on laboratory studies on the microbiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry of mycobacteria and the pathogenesis and immunology of mycobacterial infections.

CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health—www.cdc.gov/niosh
This Website provides searchable databases and information about the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries, including the prevention and control of occupational transmission of TB.

CDC National Prevention Information Network—www.cdcnpin.org
This site offers searchable databases of educational materials, funding opportunities, and organizations providing TB-related services. A subpage called "The Connections" discusses the interconnection between TB, STDs, and HIV/AIDS, underscoring the critical need for targeted TB screening and preventive treatment programs for HIV-infected persons.

CDC State TB Control Offices—www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/tboffices.htm
This Web page provides a complete list of state TB control offices and includes contact information for these offices.

Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center—www.harlemtbcenter.org
This Website provides information about TB; its impact on New York City, with particular focus on the Harlem community; and TB-related services provided by the center.

Chest Medicine On-Line—www.priory.com/chest.htm
This peer-reviewed online journal publishes information about respiratory medicine, including TB.

Clinical Infectious Diseases—www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/home.html
The online version of this journal, available by subscription only, is published by the Infectious Disease Society of America.

Columbia University Medical Informatics—www.cpmc.columbia.edu/resources/tbcpp
This Website provides general information, in both English and Spanish, about TB.

Combined Health Information Database (CHID)—chid.nih.gov
Maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), CHID is a bibliographic database of titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources from the NIH, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Health Resources and Services Administration. CHID provides a wealth of health promotion and education materials and program descriptions that are not indexed elsewhere.

Curry International Tuberculosis Center—www.nationaltbcenter.ucsf.edu
This Website offers a variety of online educational opportunities, including interactive case studies and online educational videos, and lists onsite and distance learning programs available through the center.

Emerging Infectious Diseases—www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid
This online journal from the CDC publishes scientific articles about emerging infectious diseases.

Ethnomed—ethnomed.org
This Website contains information regarding cultural beliefs as they relate to medical and other health care issues, including TB, of recent immigrants to the United States. Materials are available in a variety of languages, including Amharic, Somali, and Vietnamese.

The Global TB Network—www.tb.net.np
This online resource center provides general information about TB and TB-related training programs, conferences, organizations, and databases.

Gorgas Memorial Institute—phealth.soph.uab.edu/gorgas/currentproj.htm
This Website provides information on Initiative for Tuberculosis Control projects, access to TB publications, and links to related resources.

International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease—www.iuatld.org
This site provides information about international scientific studies, conferences on lung health, and publications on TB and lung disease.

Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases—www.hopkins-id.edu/diseases/index_dis.html
This Website provides information about TB, including treatment, classification, and prophylaxis.

Johns Hopkins University, Center for Tuberculosis Research—www.hopkins-tb.org/news/index.shtml
This Website provides current news and information on TB, with weekly summaries of scientific articles and media reports.

Johns Hopkins University, Media/Materials Clearinghouse—www.jhuccp.org/info_to_go/tuber/index.stm
This Website provides access to databases containing hundreds of scientific articles on TB and images of posters and other visual materials on TB. It also provides links to TB-related Websites, electronic mailing lists, and organizations.

Mayo Clinic—www.mayoclinic.com
This Website features information on diseases and conditions, such as TB, as well as health topics in the news.

Medscape—www.medscape.com
Medscape provides subscribers with access to peer-reviewed journal articles, conference summaries, and information on professional training activities.

Multi-Cultural Health Communication Service—www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/health-public-affairs/mhcs/index.html
This Website offers multilingual health information, including information on TB.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Clinical Trials.Gov—www.clinicaltrials.gov
Developed by NIH through the National Library of Medicine, this Website provides patients, family members, and the general public with current information about clinical research studies.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases—www.niaid.nih.gov/dmid/tuberculosis
This Website provides information about TB, including information about vaccine development and NIAID-sponsored research.

National Institutes of Health (NIH), Tuberculosis—www.niaid.nih.gov/publications/tb.htm
This NIH-supported Website provides TB-related fact sheets, brochures, and research and training information.

National Jewish Medical and Research Center—www.njc.org/diseases/dt2.html
This Website provides information on the center's TB and atypical mycobacterial infection programs, basic and clinical TB research, and postgraduate courses on clinical management and control of TB. The site also includes fact sheets on TB and atypical mycobacterial infection and links to scientific journal articles on TB topics.

National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus—www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tuberculosis.html
This Website provides information, some of which is also available in Spanish, on various aspects of TB, including information on treatment, diagnosis, statistics, special populations, and clinical trials.

National Library of Medicine, Medline PubMed—www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
This online service of the National Library of Medicine provides access to over 11 million Medline citations dating back to the mid-1960s.

National Prevention Information Network (NPIN) Educational Materials Database—www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/locates/locates.asp?DatabaseSelected=Materials
Maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, this database contains bibliographic descriptions, abstracts, and availability information for more than 16,000 items in many formats, such as brochures/pamphlets, manuals and training guides, monographs, and reports. Materials are available in more than 34 languages.

National Tuberculosis Controllers Association—www.ntca-tb.org
This Website provides information on and for TB control offices in the United States.

New Jersey Medical School, National Tuberculosis Center—www.umdnj.edu/ntbcweb/tbsplash.html
This Website provides information on TB transmission, epidemiology, and diagnosis, as well as details about the center's toll-free information hotline.

New York City Department of Health, Tuberculosis Control Program—www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/doh/html/tb/tb.html
This Website contains information on services provided by the New York City Department of Health, including its chest clinics. It also provides general information on TB and information on the city's clinical policies and health protocols.

New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)—www.noah-health.org
Through partnerships with various libraries, the NOAH Website provides information on TB and other health issues in both English and Spanish.

New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center—www.wadsworth.org
This Website contains information on research, testing, and training programs related to TB, HIV/AIDS, and emerging infections. Also available on this site is information on the Northeastern Regional RFLP Laboratory for DNA Typing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)—www.osha.gov
This Website contains information about OSHA standards, training, and evaluation of programs that address TB in the workplace.

Pharm Web Virtual Library—www.pharmweb.net/pwmirror/library/pharmwebvlib.html
This Website is a repository of pharmaceutical information, including documents on TB, for educational and research purposes.

Project Inform Tuberculosis (TB)—-www.projectinform.org/cgi-bin/print_hit_bold.pl/fs/tuberculosis.html?tuberculosis#first_hit
This Website offers basic information on TB-such as infection, transmission, diagnosis, treatment, and multidrug-resistant strains-and TB's relationship to HIV infection and AIDS.

Public Health Training Network—www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/default.asp
This Website provides access to a calendar of satellite broadcasts, Webcasts, and meetings, as well as a catalog of distance learning courses and resources on TB and other health topics.

Respiratory Care—www.rcjournal.com
This online journal, published by the American Association for Respiratory Care, disseminates information and research about respiratory disease, including TB.

Self-Study Modules on Tuberculosis—-www.phppo.cdc.gov/phtn/tbmodules/Default.htm
The Web-based Self-Study Modules on Tuberculosis, developed by the CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, are a set of interactive educational modules targeting health care professionals, administrators, and students. Topics covered include transmission and pathogenesis, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of TB. CEUs and CNEs are available for those who successfully complete the modules.

Stanford Center for Tuberculosis Research—molepi.stanford.edu
This site provides information about current TB research and encourages international collaboration between TB researchers.

Stop TB—www.stoptb.org
This Website includes facts on TB and information on TB working groups, resources, and events, including World TB Day.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, McKinley Health Center—www.mckinley.uiuc.edu/clinics/prevmed/prevmed.html
The center's preventive medicine Website offers background information on TB, including side effects of medications to treat TB.

University of Iowa Virtual Hospital—www.vh.org
Sponsored by the University of Iowa, this Website offers information on TB for health care providers (e.g., clinical practice guidelines for management and drug treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and patients (e.g., fact sheets).

University of Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Control Program—www.med.upenn.edu/TBPA
This Website provides educational materials about TB management for nurses, physicians, and other health care professionals.

University of Utah Tuberculosis Information—medstat.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/MTB/MTB.html
This Web page provides information on the pathology of TB, including patterns of infection, microscopic findings, and tuberculin skin testing.

World Health Organization, Collaborating Centre for Tuberculosis Research and Training—www.trc-chennai.org/main.htm
This Website provides information on TB research, conferences, and workshops. The site includes a photo gallery.

World Health Organization, Global Tuberculosis Control Report—www.who.int/gtb/publications/globrep02/index.html
This Website provides the latest epidemiologic and TB control data from across the globe.

World Health Organization (WHO), Tuberculosis—www.who.int/gtb/index.htm
This site includes information on directly observed therapy-short course, TB in prisons, and TB/HIV co-infection. It also offers profiles of high-burden countries and provides access to WHO's extensive collection of TB documents, books, articles, and other publications.