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Tuberculosis (TB) Newsletter

The Philadelphia TB Newsletter is a publication that is intended to be a resource for clinicians, infection control personnel, and laboratories who diagnose, treat, and/or report tuberculosis (TB) in Philadelphia. The TB Newsletter provides treatment updates and recommendations, reviews local and national TB epidemiology, and presents case studies.

To view or download the TB Newsletter, click on an issue below.

Year

Volume / Issue

Description

2016

Volume 9 / Issue 2

Topics include home isolation of TB patients, TB in high risk populations: TB and the homeless, world TB day - save the date.

2015

Volume 9 / Issue 1

Topics include TB, diabetes, surveillance update, and world TB day links.

2014

Volume 8 / Issue 1

Topics include Farewell, Barry, PPD shortage update, surveillance update, world TB day links.

2013

Volume 7 / Issue 1

Topics include TB drug shortage, 2012 surveillance, and total drug resistance.

2012

Volume 6 / Issue 1

Topics include TB 101 course, world TB day, new LTBI regimen, and surveillance update.

2011

Volume 5 / Issue 1

Topics include new LTBI guide, military TB, XDR-TB, and surveillance update.

2010

Volume 4 / Issue 2

Topics include spotlight on services, TB news in brief, TB self-study modules, and TB in pregnancy.

2010

Volume 4 / Issue 1

Topics include reporting TB suspects, new peds report form, military TB, XDR-TB, and surveillance update.

2009

Volume 3 / Issue 2

Topics include treatment of LTBI, infectious tuberculosis, and notes from the field.

2008

Volume 2 / Issue 2

Topics include TB drug development, focus on services, and drug resistance.

2008

Volume 2 / Issue 1

Topics include Burmese refugee resettlement, treating LTBI, and trends in TB: 2007.

2007

Volume 1 / Issue 3

Topics include discharging patients from the hospital, extensively drug resistant TB, and World TB Day.

2006

Volume 1 / Issue 2

Topics include TB in a Hurricane Katrina Evacuee.

2006

Volume 1 / Issue 1

Topics include epidemiology, TB among foreign born, QuantiFeron, World TB Day, pediatric TB, and reporting.