ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis (TB) outbreaks and resulting transmission to contacts have been documented in many diverse locations all over the world. These include institutions (1), doctor’s offices (2), airplanes (3), crack houses (4), HIV respite facilities (5), drug rehabilitation centers (6), navy ships (7), renal transplant units (8), dialysis centers (9), churches (10), homeless shelters (11-13), and other nontraditional settings such as among exotic dancers (14), transgender populations (15), and bar patrons (16-18). The utility and importance of contact tracings in these settings and for high-risk groups such as the foreign born (19), children under 15 years of age (20-22), and multidrug-resistant cases (23) have also been demonstrated.
