How do i talk to my healthcare provider about inactive tuberculosis (TB)?

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  A Conversation Guide for Patients ; Tuberculosis (TB) germs can live in your body for years without causing symptoms. This is called inactive TB or latent TB infection. Inactive TB can become active TB disease at anytime and make you sick. Once inactive TB becomes active TB disease, TB can spread from person to person through the air. Starting a conversation with your doctor is the first step to protecting your family, friends, and community from this highly contagious disease. ; Publication date from document properties. ; 301094 ; ThinkTestTreatTB-patient-conversation-guide.pdf
• Subjects:
  • Communication
  • Latent Tuberculosis/diagnosis
  • Latent Tuberculosis/therapy
  • Physician-Patient Relations
• Series:
  Think. Test. Treat TB
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118963/cdc_118963_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 711.96 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7ddefa0bf4795b1f101b4e09c0929286bccec63680503a1d87b20e3eadb40babbca534f44c7d9d6fa1ba72ef6bc1b67116018a69fbbb7d61629b45fbf4146689