Society guideline links: Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Tuberculosis transmission and control".)

International

●International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD): Technical publications on tuberculosis

●World Health Organization (WHO): Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents (2022)

●WHO Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Treatment: Drug-susceptible tuberculosis treatment (2022)

●WHO: Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents (2022)

●WHO: Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Treatment: Drug-susceptible tuberculosis treatment (2022)

●WHO: Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Diagnosis: Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection, update (2021)

●WHO: Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Diagnosis: Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection, update (2021)

●WHO: Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Screening: Systematic screening for tuberculosis disease (2021)

●WHO: Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Screening: Systematic screening for tuberculosis disease (2021)

●WHO: Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Prevention: Tuberculosis preventive treatment (2020)

●WHO: Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Prevention: Tuberculosis preventive treatment (2020)

●WHO: Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Treatment: Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment (2020)

●WHO: Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Treatment: Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment (2020)

Australia–New Zealand

●National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC): Guidelines, publications and position statements on tuberculosis (2019)

Brazil

●Brazilian Thoracic Association (BTA): Guidelines on tuberculosis (2009)

Canada

●Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS): Canadian Tuberculosis Standards, 8th edition (2022)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point on approaches to detecting tuberculosis in children and youth (2018)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Handbook on tuberculosis laboratory diagnostic methods in the European Union, update (2018)

●ECDC: Public health guidance on programmatic management of latent tuberculosis infection in the European Union (2018)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/ECDC: European Union standards for tuberculosis care, 2017 update (published 2018)

India

●World Health Organization (WHO) India: Index TB guidelines – Guidelines on extra-pulmonary tuberculosis for India (2016)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society for Tuberculosis (JST): Abstracts in English

●[In Japanese] JST: For healthcare professionals

Pakistan

●National TB Control Program (NTP): Guidelines & training module

●Pakistan Chest Society (PCS): A national clinical guideline for the diagnosis and management of drug-susceptible tuberculosis (2017)

South Africa

●Department of Health, Republic of South Africa (DOH): National tuberculosis management guidelines (2014)

●DOH: Guidelines – Management of drug-resistant tuberculosis (2013)

●DOH: Guidelines – Management of tuberculosis in children (2013)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on tuberculosis (2016, updated 2019)

●NICE: Quality standard on tuberculosis (2017)

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Tuberculosis guidelines by topic

•TB and HIV guidelines

•TB guidelines – Drug-resistant TB (MDR TB)

•TB guidelines – Laboratory

•TB guidelines – Testing and diagnosis

•TB guidelines – Treatment

●US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF): Final recommendation statement on screening for latent tuberculosis infection in adults (2023)

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book (2021)

•Consideration for testing for infectious agents – Tuberculosis

•Tuberculosis

●National Institutes of Health (NIH): Guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in adults and adolescents living with HIV - Considerations for antiretroviral use in patients with coinfections: Tuberculosis/HIV coinfection (2021)

●National Tuberculosis Controllers Association (NTCA): Testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in the United States – Clinical recommendations: A guide for health care providers and public health programs (2021)

●American Society of Transplantation (AST): Guidelines on Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in solid organ transplantation (2019)

●American Thoracic Society (ATS)/CDC/European Respiratory Society (ERS)/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guideline for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (2019)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on imaging of possible tuberculosis (2016)

●ATS/CDC/IDSA: Clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis (2016)

●ATS/IDSA/CDC: Clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults and children (2016)