WMLN Resources

Announcements and Updates

Discontinuation of AFB Smear Testing for Blood Specimens

Interesting Articles

Consensus Statement on the Use of Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF® Assay in Making Decisions to Discontinue Airborne Infection Isolation in Healthcare Settings – NTCA and APHL 2016

Leveling of Tuberculosis Incidence — United States, 2013–2015

Availability of an Assay for Detecting Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Including Rifampin-Resistant Strains, and Consideration for Its Use – United States, 2013

Provisional CDC Guidelines for the Use and Safety Monitoring of Bedaquiline Fumarate (Sirturo) for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Updated Guidelines for Using Interferon Gamma Release Assays to Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection – United States, 2010

WSLH Specimen Collection and Testing

Kit 8 Respiratory Collection AFB and Legionella with Sputum Collection Instructions

Nebulized Sputum Induction Instructions

WSLH Memo: Nucleic Acid Amplification for Direct Detection of M. tuberculosis complex (“TB”) and M. avium complex (MAC) from clinical specimens

Sputum collection Instructions

WSLH TB DST Summary 2016

Kit 13 Collection of Gastric Specimens for Mycobacteria Culture and Smear

Lab Safety

BMBL, 6th Edition

Guidelines for Safe Work Practices in Human and Animal Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, MMWR

Websites

American Thoracic Society

CDC Tuberculosis information

Find Diagnostics

Interim Laboratory Guidance for Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium

Stop TB Partnership

World Health Organization

Wisconsin TB Program

WMLN Annual Meeting Materials

2021

Presentation video

TB Epidemiology

WI TB Program Updates

Case Study: Molecular Detection of MTBC and IS6110

Transition to WGS for TB cluster detection

WI Mycobacteriology Laboratory Survey

WI Survey of Local Health Departments

The Curious Case of Mr. M

2023

All in the Family: Inherited Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Diseases

WI TB Program Updates

Tuberculosis Epidemiology, Worldwide, United States, and Wisconsin, 2022

HPMZ Case Studies: 4-month TB Treatment

Laboratory Case Studies: Cross-Contamination in the Mycobacteriology Lab

Laboratory Case Studies: AFB Slide Contamination

Laboratory Case Studies: Mycobacterium mucogenicum outbreak investigation

Laboratory Case Studies: Rare Bugs in the Water

Case Study: A Giant Pain in the Neck