[Draft] Course for Senior LT/CDST LT on NTEP

Target Audience

• Sr. LT- CDST

• CDST_LT-M1:Basics of TB and NTEP

  • CDST_LT: Epidemiology and burden of TB
  • CDST_LT: Introduction to NTEP
  • CDST_LT: General concepts in TB care in India
  • CDST_LT: Nikshay The NTEP Information System

• CDST_LT-M2: TB diagnosis and case finding in NTEP

  • CDST_LT: Diagnostic technologies in NTEP
  • CDST_LT: Diagnostic network and hierarchy in NTEP
  • CDST_LT: TB diagnosis
  • CDST_LT: Case finding methods under NTEP
  • CDST_LT: Role of the senior LT and related stakeholders in TB Care

• CDST_LT-M3: Specimen collection and transportation

  • CDST_LT: General concepts
  • CDST_LT: Good quality specimen collection
  • CDST_LT: Specimen transport
  • CDST_LT: Specimen receipt

• CDST_LT-M4: Smear microscopy

  • CDST_LT: Basics of microscopy
  • CDST_LT: Sputum smear preparation
  • CDST_LT: Staining sputum smears
  • CDST_LT: Reading smears and reporting microscopy results
  • CDST_LT: Maintenance of the microscope
  • CDST_LT: Maintaining supplies of lab consumables at the DMC

• CDST_LT-M5: Ensuring quality microscopy

  • CDST_LT: General concepts in quality assurance
  • CDST_LT: External quality assurance

• CDST_LT-M6: Infection prevention and control (IPC)

  • CDST_LT: Good laboratory practices
  • CDST_LT: General concepts in IPC
  • CDST_LT: Airborne infection control
  • CDST_LT: Biomedical waste management

• CDST_LT-M7: Biosafety

  • CDST_LT: Introduction to biosafety
  • CDST_LT: Biosafety measures for TB Laboratories
  • CDST_LT: TB laboratory classification
  • CDST_LT: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • CDST_LT: Emergency preparedness

• CDST_LT-M9: Interacting with patients

  • CDST_LT: Stigma, discrimination and gender sensitivity
  • CDST_LT: Counselling for collecting sputum specimen
  • CDST_LT: Counselling the TB patients

• CDST_LT-M10: CBNAAT

  • CDST_LT: CBNAAT as a rapid molecular diagnostic tool
  • CDST_LT: Sample processing for CBNAAT
  • CDST_LT: CBNAAT result interpretation and recording
  • CDST_LT: Troubleshooting in CBNAAT
  • CDST_LT: Maintenance of CBNAAT
  • CDST_LT: Monitoring CBNAAT quality and lab performance
  • CDST_LT: Biomedical waste management in CBNAAT

• CDST_LT-M11: Truenat

  • CDST_LT: Truenat as a rapid molecular diagnostic test
  • CDST_LT: Specimen processing for truenat
  • CDST_LT: Testing using Truenat
  • CDST_LT: Truenat result interpretation and recording
  • CDST_LT: Troubleshooting in truenat
  • CDST_LT: Truenat instrument maintenance and record keeping
  • CDST_LT: Monitoring Truenat quality and lab performance
  • CDST_LT: Biomedical waste management in Truenat

• CDST_LT-M12:- Liquid culture

  • CDST_LT: Introduction to MGIT 960 system
  • CDST_LT: Sample processing reagents preparation
  • CDST_LT: Specimen processing and inoculation
  • CDST_LT: Growth detection
  • CDST_LT: Liquid culture contamination
  • CDST_LT: False culture results
  • CDST_LT: Liquid culture troubleshooting
  • CDST_LT: MGIT Reading and reporting
  • CDST_LT: Identification methods for MGIT 960 LC growth
  • CDST_LT: Storage of culture isolates

• CDST_LT-M13: LC-DST

  • CDST_LT: LT DST Introduction
  • CDST_LT: Requirements for submission, acceptance and processing of isolates for DST
  • CDST_LT: SIRE susceptibility testing
  • CDST_LT: Pyrazinamide (PZA) susceptibility testing
  • CDST_LT: Second line drug testing
  • CDST_LT: Inoculum preparation and incubation for MGIT DST
  • CDST_LT: Reading and reporting of MGIT 960 DST results
  • CDST_LT: MGIT DST quality control
  • CDST_LT: Quality assurance of TB Culture & DST laboratories

• CDST_LT-M14: Line Probe Assay

  • CDST_LT: Molecular basics
  • CDST_LT: Introduction to LPA
  • CDST_LT: LPA lab biosafety requirements
  • CDST_LT: Equipment used in LPA labs
  • CDST_LT: LPA procedures
  • CDST_LT: LPA Recording, interpretation and reporting
  • CDST_LT: LPA Troubleshooting and quality assurance