Global Tuberculosis
Dictionary

Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) Acid-fast bacilli (AFB) examination Acquired drug resistance Active case-finding Active tuberculosis Adherence Airborne M. tuberculosis transmission Annual risk of M. tuberculosis infection Antiretroviral therapy (ART)-associated tuberculosis

Bacillary load Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Bacilli Bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis (case definition) Basic management unit (BMU) Basic management unit tuberculosis register Boosting Bovine tuberculosis

Case notification Case notification rate Catastrophic total costs due to tuberculosis Cavity Clinically diagnosed tuberculosis (case definition) Close community contact Cluster (TB) Community- or home-based directly observed therapy (DOT) Community-based tuberculosis activities Computer-aided detection (CAD) for tuberculosis Confirmed case of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) Contact Contact investigation Contagious (infectious) tuberculosis patient Continuation phase Conversion of interferon-Γ release assays Critical concentration (CC) Critical proportion Cross-resistance Cured (treatment outcome)

Death (treatment outcome) Directly observed therapy (DOT) Directly observed treatment, short course (DOTS) Disseminated tuberculosis Drug resistance among new case Drug resistance among previously treated cases Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) management centre Drug-susceptibility testing (DST) Drug-susceptible tuberculosis