Tuberculosis

Many deficiencies in investigations of contacts of patients with active TB

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 9th, 2002

Improvement is needed in the complex process of contact investigations to ensure that contacts of patients with active tuberculosis (TB) are identified and properly screened, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Mary R. Reichler, MD, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, and colleagues evaluated TB contact investigations conducted by U.S. health departments and outcomes of these investigations. They reviewed health department records for all contacts of patients with culture-positive pulmonary TB, age 15 and older, reported from five study areas in the U.S. during 1996.

TB can...

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