Detroit Health Department TB clinic TB Nurse Tammy Cooper Phone 313-577-9827 Fax 313-577-9887 Dr. Dana Kissner dkissner@med.wayne.edu https://detroitmi.gov/departments/detroit-health-department/programs-and-services/communicable-disease Communicable Disease Program Reporting form Wayne County TB Clinic
Category: Infections
TB PCR testing for patients in airborne isolation
Henry Ford Hospital has added Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) PCR testing in the microbiology laboratory as of 2/2019. Two negative PCRs on sputum samples 8 hours apart can be used to take the patient out of airborne isolation (although it does not rule out infectious TB). This would be far sooner than current protocol of three negative […]