Contact Investigation/Contact Tracing

This guideline outlines the steps involved in conducting a TB interview for a contact investigation.

This videotape presents a comedic skit that illustrates the complexities involving care of a difficult inmate who has active TB disease and the collaboration needed to identify contacts and treat the inmate to cure. The videotape addresses transmission and infectiousness, medication regimen, length of treatment, and the need for good specimen collection and types of specimens.

This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.

This manual describes the TB field investigation process including pre-investigation preparation, communication with individuals in the field, confidentiality, field safety, and working with community providers. A checklist to be used during field work is also included.

This resource was developed for use by public health workers who provide TB education in congregate setting contact investigations. In addition to explaining how to effectively plan and conduct a successful TB education session, it contains: (1) a PowerPoint presentation on the basics of TB; (2) a list of TB-related terms, defined appropriately for lay audiences; (3) frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) sheet specific to contact investigations; (4) a pull-out TB fact sheet; and (5) an evaluation to assess the effectiveness of the TB education session.

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 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 fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.

This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.

This fact sheet gives general information about what a TB contact investigation is and why it is important.