*TUBERCULOSIS
*Mycobacterium tuberculosis, *Mycobacterium africanum, *Mycobacterium bovis, *Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Practice / Additional Precautions:
+AIRBORNE: Confirmed or suspected pulmonary or laryngeal
 Mode of Transmission:
Airborne
Infectious Material:
Respiratory secretions
 Duration of Additional Precautions:
Until 2 weeks of effective antibiotic therapy, improving clinically and has 3 consecutive negative sputum smears collected at least 24 hours apart
Multi drug-resistant tuberculosis: until cultures
negative
Signs & Symptoms:
Weight loss, fever, night sweats, pulmonary pain, cough, bloody expectoration, lesion on diagnostic imaging
Comments:
  • +For extra-pulmonary meningitis, bone, joint infection, draining lesions, and PPD (purified protein derivative) reactive test with no evidence of current pulmonary disease, use Routine Practices
  • Avoid unnecessary procedures that may generate aerosols
  • Notify infection control
* Reportable Disease



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