PM: Specimen collection and transportation
- Spot and early morning sputum sample
- Steps to Ensure a Good Quality Sputum Sample
- Educating patient on Sputum collection and dispensing Sputum cup
- Receiving a biological specimen at the Laboratory
- Requesting a Test on Nikshay
- Accepting the request for testing
- Storing a sputum sample
- Transportation of Biological Specimens
- Modes of Transportation in SCT
- Requirements for Packaging a biological Specimen
- SOP for Packaging Specimens during the Transportation of Biological Specimens for TB Diagnosis
- Specimen Carriers
- Process for Labelling Specimen Transport Carriers
- Cool Chain Requirement for the Transport of TB Diagnostic Specimens
- Dispatching the sample to a C&DST Lab
Course for Program Managers under NTEP
- PM: Basics of TB and NTEP
- PM: TB Laboratories and Diagnostic technologies in NTEP
- PM: TB Diagnosis and Case finding
- PM: TB Treatment
- PM: TB and comorbidity management
- PM: Public Health Action
- PM: TB Prevention
- PM: Direct Benefit Transfers in NTEP
- PM: Financial management and Planning
- PM: Procurement, Supply Chain Management & Preventive Maintenance
- PM: Partnerships, Corporate and Multisectoral engagement
- PM: ACSM and Community Engagement
- PM: Supervision, Monitoring and Evaluation
- PM: Training and capacity development
PM: QA of TDC
- Storing slides at a DMC for QA
- False Positivity and False Negativity in Microscopy
- Need for Quality Testing and Control
- Measures for Quality Assurance in Microscopy
- Quality assurance of Stains and Internal Quality Control
- Panel Testing
- Onsite Evaluation[OSE]
- OSE Feedback and action required
- Random Blinded ReChecking [RBRC] Concept
- Random Blinded ReChecking [RBRC] Process
- Random Blinded ReChecking [RBRC] Process at DTC
- Random Blinded ReChecking [RBRC] Interpreting Feedback
- Good Laboratory Practices
PM: TB Detection centres
- Qualities of a good sputum smear
- ZN Microscopy: Properties of a well stained slide
- Fluorescent Microscopy: Properties of a well stained slide
- Reporting and Recording results of Smear Microscopy (On paper)
- Reporting results of Microscopy (Digitally)
- Tuberculosis Laboratory Register
- Generating the DMC Laboratory Register from Nikshay
- Annual Maintenance [AMC] of a Microscope
- Consumables required at a Microscopy Centre
- Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]
- The CBNAAT Cartridge
- Consumables required at CBNAAT Lab
- CBNAAT Testing Process Overview
- CBNAAT Results Interpretation
- Recording and reporting the NAAT results
- Maintenance of CBNAAT Instrument under NTEP
- Disposal of Infectious Samples and Used Cartridges in CBNAAT Lab
- Truenat
- Consumables Required at a Truenat Lab
- Overview of the Truenat Testing Process
- Recording and reporting the NAAT results
- Biosafety measures required for Truenat
- Disposal of Infectious Samples and Used Cartridges in TrueNAT Laboratories
PM: Diagnostic Technologies and Lab Network
- Testing for TB diagnosis
- Microscopy
- Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]
- Truenat
- Line Probe Assay [LPA]
- Solid and Liquid Culture in TB
- Culture Drug Susceptibility Testing [CDST]
- Laboratory Hierarchy and Network
- Roles of NRLs
- Intermediate Reference Laboratories [IRL] and their role
- CDST labs and their role
- NAAT Labs and their role
- Functions of a Designated Microscopy Centres [DMC]
- Sputum Collection centres