Guidelines
Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Extra Pulmonary, No Draining Lesions

Type of Precaution: RP

Single Room: No

Comments:

  • Reportable Disease
  • Notify Infection Control
  • Assess for concurrent pulmonary TB.

Extrapulmonary, Draining Lesions

Type of Precaution: Airborne

Single Room:

  • Yes, with negative air flow and door closed.

Duration of Precautions:

  • Continue precautions until drainage ceased or three consecutive negative AFB smears.

Comments:

  • Reportable Disease
  • Notify Infection Control
  • Assess for concurrent pulmonary TB.

Pulmonary - Confirmed or Suspected or Laryngeal Disease

Type of Precaution: Airborne

Single Room:

  • Yes, with negative air flow and door closed.

Duration of Precautions:

  • Continue precautions until TB ruled out.
  • If confirmed, until patient has received two weeks of effective therapy, is improving clinically and has three consecutive sputum smears negative for AFB, collected 24 hours apart.
  • If multidrug-resistant TB, until culture negative.

Comments:

  • Reportable Disease
  • Notify Infection Control

Skin-Test Positive with no Evidence of Current Disease

Type of Precaution: RP

Single Room: No

Comments:

  • Latent tuberculous infection (LTBI).