TB Program History
The number of TB controllers in SCC in the last 25 years.
What is 8?
A common name for inactive form of TB.
What is latent TB infection (LTBI)?
Bay Area county with highest TB case rates in 2023.
What is Santa Clara County?
The common name for TB in the 1800s.
What is consumption?
The way in which TB is spread.
What is airborne?
The current SCC TB staff with longest employment on our team.
Who is Carlo?
The drug that turns body fluids (including urine) orange.
What is rifampin?
Reason for high rates of TB in low-income areas.
What is limited access to high quality health care?
The doctor who discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Who is Dr. Robert Koch?
The full name for the organism that causes TB.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
The number of office locations the TB team has had in the last 30 years.
What is 12?
Another name for pyridoxine.
What is Vitamin B6?
Age group that is most likely to develop TB disease if infected.
What is infancy?
The two countries where the first written documents describing TB were found.
What is India and China?
The number of hours on an airplane sitting near someone with contagious TB that CDC considers significant enough to investigate.
What is 8 hours?
The number of languages that our staff are fluent in.
What is 10?
A form of TB where the bug is resistant to INH and RIF.
What is MDR-TB or multidrug resistant TB?
The continent with the highest numbers of TB cases.
What is Asia?
Popular Broadway show depicting a story of truth, beauty, freedom, but main character dies of TB.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Three determinants of TB transmission.
What is infectiousness of case, duration of exposure and shared airspace (ventilation)?
The current IDR leader who was previously the TB Senior Health Care Program Analyst.
Who is Norah Ojeda?
The names of the four first line active TB drugs.
What is isoniazid (INH), rifampin (RIF,) pyrazinamide (PZA), and Ethambutol (EMB)?
The most common and concerning side effect for INH.
What is liver toxicity?
The Opera based on the Alexandre Dumas novel Lady with Camellias whose main character suffers and dies from TB.
What is La Traviata?
Three methods of preventing transmission of TB.
What are effective multidrug TB medicines, isolate the patient, increase ventilation, masking or cough hygiene?