Although tuberculosis rates have declined in the United States over the past 19 years, new
cases and cases of drug resistant strains continue to appear. Healthcare workers are at …

Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at risk of becoming infected with Mycobacterium
tuberculosis through occupational exposure. The magnitude of the risk varies according to …

BACKGROUND: Cook County Hospital (CCH) is an inner-city, large public hospital. Twenty-
five percent of Chicago's tuberculosis (TB) cases are diagnosed at CCH. We wanted to …

Issues related to control of TB transmission will be reviewed here. Issues related to TB
screening in health care workers are discussed separately.(See" Tuberculosis infection …

Objectives: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention implemented a national training
program for health care workers and surveillance staff to ensure accuracy of data reported to …

Hospital-based occupational tuberculosis (TB) control programs have four basic
components: rapid detection of TB disease in presenting patients; use of environmental …

It is well established that health care workers (HCWs) have a considerably higher risk of
occupationally acquired tuberculosis (TB). To reduce the transmission of TB to HCWs and …

This article summarizes infection control recommendations to guide health care workers to
manage patients who are confirmed or suspected of having pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends periodic tuberculin
skin testing of healthcare workers with potential exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis …

Background: In 1992 and 1993, the Maryland Hospital Association and the Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene conducted 2 surveys of tuberculosis prevention …