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Tuberculosis: A Persistent Public Health Threat

Tracking # 20-916037

$13.00

4.1 (19 ratings)
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Method Computer-Based Training

What you'll learn

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the natural history of disease of tuberculosis infection, its management, and associated risk factors
  2. List three challenges to TB eradication
  3. Recognize the potential downstream effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB prevention.

Course overview

This presentation provides a basic-level overview of TB infection by reviewing the natural history of TB disease, its transmission, difference between latent/active disease, and disease management. Prevention will also be reviewed, including challenges to eradication, and what we currently know about the downstream effects of COVID-19 on TB rates.

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel

Clinical Laboratory Director

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Clinical Laboratory Supervisor

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Clinical Laboratory Technician

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Clinical Laboratory Technologist

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Public Health Director

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Public Health Supervisor

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Public Health Technician

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Public Health Technologist

1h General (Microbiology/Mycology/Parasitology)

Disclosure statements

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the natural history of disease of tuberculosis infection, its management, and associated risk factors
  2. List three challenges to TB eradication
  3. Recognize the potential downstream effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on TB prevention

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