The mission of the West Virginia Tuberculosis Control Program is to achieve the absence of indigenous transmission of tuberculosis infection in West Virginia, which results in clinically apparent tuberculosis disease, by the year 2010.
The TB Control Program provides tuberculin testing materials to Local Health Departments for contacts and other high risk persons. We also provide x-rays for evaluation of active disease and latent TB infection (LTBI) through Local Health Departments. Clinicians are provided for chest diagnostic clinics to evaluate/treat active disease and LTBI. We provide medications as well as financial support to Local Health Departments to do Liver Function Tests for TB cases and LTBI patients. We work with the Office of Laboratory Services to provide AFB smear and culture testing, drug susceptibilities and DNA fingerprinting of specimens.
CDC: MMWR Recommendations
MMWR, Dec 16, 2005 / 54(RR15);1-37. "Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis"
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5415a1.htm
MMWR, Dec 30, 2005 / Vol. 54 / No. RR-17. "Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005"
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5417a1.htm
MMWR, June 20, 2003 / Vol. 52 / No. RR-11. "Treatment of Tuberculosis"
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5211a1.htm