Contact Investigation/Contact Tracing

This video instructs contact investigators on how to work with healthcare professionals to provide tuberculosis (TB) treatment.

This instructional video provides information on planning and conducting contact investigations in congregate settings. 

The 2019 Maryland Department of Health Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis serves a resource for Maryland healthcare providers and local health departments. The guidelines were approved by TB experts and TB clinicians within Maryland.

This toolkit is designed for health department staff responsible for planning and conducting TB contact investigations in school settings. The toolkit provides guidance, tips, and tools for planning and implementing a school TB contact investigation.

This program manual provides information on the NYC Department of Health’s policies, protocols, and recommendations for the prevention, treatment, and control of TB. 

An infographic designed to help explain the important work of Disease Investigation Specialists.

This guide is divided into three major parts. The first part is designed to provide the Contact Investigator with the essential HIV/AIDS information he or she will need when engaging in a family-friendly discussion to encourage TB contacts to agree to HIV counseling and testing. The second is designed to give TB program managers guidelines for implementing a program tailored to their jurisdiction. The third part details a training course that will impart the skills, attitudes, and knowledge one will need to include HIV in tuberculosis contact investigations.

This resource is designed for use in the evaluation of tuberculosis (TB) contact investigations in congregate settings. It provides explanatory text and tools for assessing health care worker performance and skills as well as programmatic outcomes of contact investigations in congregate settings.

This report summarizes the results of an investigation of the patients and their contacts in Chickasaw County, Mississippi during the period from June 1999 to March 2002, and demonstrates the need for strategies to increase the proportion of infected contacts that successfully complete treatment for latent TB infection (LTBI).

This instructional packet includes a series of four print-based modules addressing TB contact investigation, case management, and confidentiality. It also provides information on managing multidrug-resistant TB and on DOT.