What are the symptoms of TB disease?
Cough of 3 weeks, bloody sputum, and chest pain
Who has the primary responsibility for ensuring successful completion of TB treatment.
What is the TB program? (including the TB clinician, nurse case manager and DOT/DIS outreach staff.)
This is defined as M. tb that is resistant to at least INH and RIF.
What is MDR TB?
True or False: The index patient represents the first instance or initial report of TB disease.
What is true?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are where TB bacilli can multiply and cause infection.
What are alveoli?
This blood test measures a person's immune response to M.tb
What is an IGRA
(Interferon-Gamma Release Assay)?
QuantiFERON®-TB Gold Plus;
T-SPOT®.TB test (T-Spot)
This term refers to the ability of a drug to rapidly kill multiplying M. tb.
What is bactericidal?
Previous TB and poor adherence to TB treatment are ____ for drug resistant TB.
What are risk factors?
This establishes a probable start and end point of potential transmission between the index patient and contacts.
What is the infectious period?
These are the three most preferred short course options for treating TB infection.
What are
3HP (12 weeks of INH + Rifapentine)
and
4R (4 months of Rifampin)
and
3 HR?
This is what laboratory personnel look for in a smear.
What are acid-fast bacilli (AFB)?
This the 6-month regimen for treating drug susceptible TB in adults.
1) An intensive phase of _____months of ______________________followed by
2) a continuation phase of _____months of ________________________.
What are an intensive phase of 2 months of RIPE followed by a continuation phase of 4 months of INH and RIF?
This type of resistance develops during TB therapy.
What is secondary (or acquired) resistance?
This is an environment where a number of people gather or share the same air space for either a limited or extended period of time.
What is a congregate setting?
This is the gene that confers resistance for Rifampin.
What is rpoB?
This type of pattern on the chest X-ray results from hematogenous dissemination of the tubercle bacilli leading to many nodules of varying sizes in the interstitium and airspaces.
What is miliary TB?
This new shorter regimen was shown in a landmark study to be as effective as the current 6-month regimen for treatment of TB.
(Hint: months and drugs)
What is 2HPMZ and 2HPM?
QTC prolongation is a side effect of______.
What is bedaquiline and moxifloxacin?
This model can help set parameters, define the limits, and help visualize the information collected in a contact investigation.
What is concentric circle model of contact tracing?
He discovered the bacteria that causes TB.
Who is Robert Koch?
A patient has cough, fever, and hemoptysis with an abnormal CXR. Symptoms and imaging improve with RIPE, however, AFB smears and culture are negative. What type of TB is this?
What is "clinical" or culture negative TB?
Completion of treatment is primarily defined by this within a specific time frame.
What is the number of ingested doses?
This short-course option for treatment of MDR TB uses an oral regimen for 6 months.
What are the BPaL or BPaLM regimens?
True or False:
The minimum infectious period should be 3 months before symptom onset in the setting of a case with smear positive cavitary TB.
What is True?
True or False:
A 4-month regimen for TB disease including rifapentine, isoniazid, ethambutol and pyrazinamide was non-inferior to the standard 6- month regimen.
What is False?
Name this Nicole Kidman movie in which the main character that she plays dies of TB.
What is Moulin Rouge?