Isolation
See also the Core Curriculum Chapter 6 and Self-Study Module 5 in Online Courses as well as guidance TB Guidelines under Isolation for community-based isolation and discharge from airborne infection isolation and under Setting-Specific Recommendations and Guidelines for correctional, detention, and healthcare settings.
TB Isolation: Perspectives on the New Guidelines, from Idea to Implementation
In this session at the Wisconsin TB Summit 2025, a TB survivor and a scientist teamed up to explain the updated NTCA respiratory isolation guidelines and early adopter state TB nurse consultants shared their experiences rolling out these guidelines. Mayo Clinic Center for TB.
This collection was developed in response to new guidelines from NTCA on the isolation of TB patients in community settings. Articles include clinical guidelines for the use of isolation in TB management, reviews of the history of isolation as a public health intervention and of the determinants of TB infectiousness, and a commentary on an ethics-informed public health guideline framework. Clinical Infectious Diseases and The Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2025.
Guidance on Release from Hospital Tuberculosis Isolation
This one-page fact sheet outlines the diagnostics and clinical impressions that indicate the criteria for releasing a patient from airborne infection isolation in a hospital to home or a high-risk/congregate setting. Heartland National TB Center, 2021.