Society guideline links: Diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis

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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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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Tuberculosis

•Rapid communication for tuberculosis preventive treatment (2024)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 1: Prevention – Tuberculosis preventive treatment, second edition (2024)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 1: Prevention – Tuberculosis preventive treatment, second edition (2024)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 2: Screening – Systematic screening for tuberculosis disease (2021)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 2: Screening – Systematic screening for tuberculosis disease (2022)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 3: Diagnosis – Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection (2024)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 3: Diagnosis – Rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection (2024)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 4: Treatment – Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment, update (2022)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 4: Treatment – Drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment, update (2022)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 4: Treatment – Drug-susceptible tuberculosis treatment (2022)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 4: Treatment – Drug-susceptible tuberculosis treatment (2022)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 4: Treatment – Tuberculosis care and support (2022)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 4: Treatment – Tuberculosis care and support (2022)

•Consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis – Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents (2022)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 5: Management of tuberculosis in children and adolescents (2022)

•Operational handbook on tuberculosis – Module 6: Tuberculosis and comorbidities – Mental health conditions (2023)

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

•Management of tuberculosis – A guide to essential practice, 7th edition (2019)

Australia–New Zealand

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

●Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI): The Australian Immunisation Handbook – Tuberculosis (2023)

Brazil

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

Canada

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Tuberculosis (TB) – For health professionals

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Practice point on approaches to detecting tuberculosis in children and youth (2018, reaffirmed 2024)

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

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Guidance on tuberculosis prevention and control

●ECDC: Handbook on tuberculosis laboratory diagnostic methods in the European Union, update (2023)

●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

●[In Japanese] JST: Basic knowledge of tuberculosis disease, revised 5th edition (2021)

Pakistan

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

●Pakistan Chest Society (PCS): A national clinical guideline for diagnosis and management of drug-susceptible tuberculosis (2020)

South Africa

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

●DOH: Guidelines for the management of tuberculosis in children (2013)

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

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on tuberculosis (2016, updated 2024)

●British HIV Association (BHIVA): Guidelines for the management of tuberculosis in adults living with HIV, interim update (2018, updated 2023)

●UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA): The Green Book – Immunisation against infectious disease: Tuberculosis (2013, updated 2018)

●NICE: Quality standard on tuberculosis (2017)

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Clinical guidelines on tuberculosis – For health care providers

●American Thoracic Society (ATS)/CDC/European Respiratory Society (ERS)/Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): An official clinical practice guideline for treatment of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis, updates (2025)

•ATS/CDC/ERS/IDSA: An official clinical practice guideline for treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis (2019)

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

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book – Tuberculosis (2024)

●National Society of Tuberculosis Clinicians (NSTC): Clinical recommendations for testing and treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in the United States – A guide for health care providers and public health programs (2024)

●US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS): Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in adults and adolescents with HIV – Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease (2024)

●US Department of HHS: Guidelines for the use of antiretroviral agents in adults and adolescents with HIV - Considerations for antiretroviral use in patients with coinfections: Tuberculosis/HIV coinfection (2024)

●US Department of HHS: Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in children with and exposed to HIV – Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2023)

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

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

●ATS/CDC/IDSA: Clinical practice guidelines on diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults and children (2017)

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