37.114.1005    ISOLATION OF CASE TESTING AND QUARANTINE OF CONTACTS

(1) Isolation must be imposed upon a case of active tuberculosis until the patient is considered not able to transmit tuberculosis as determined by the local health officer and the department's tuberculosis program.

(2) The local health officer or department's tuberculosis program may require contacts of a case to be tested for tuberculosis infection and disease.

(3) No quarantine of contacts is required unless the contact is symptomatic for active tuberculosis disease and has not completed a diagnostic evaluation to rule out active tuberculosis disease.

History: 50-1-202, 50-1-204, 50-2-118, 50-17-103, MCA; IMP, 50-1-202, 50-1-204, 50-2-118, 50-17-102, 50-17-103, 50-17-105, MCA; NEW, 1980 MAR p. 1579, Eff. 6/13/80; AMD, 1987 MAR p. 2147, Eff. 11/28/87; AMD, 2000 MAR p. 2528, Eff. 9/22/00; TRANS, from DHES, 2002 MAR p. 913; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 2112, Eff. 9/8/06; AMD, 2017 MAR p. 343, Eff. 3/25/17.