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Contact Tracing plays an important role in the detection of all those who are secondarily infected for proper diagnosis and prompt treatment. This process can be recorded and reported in Ni-kshay under the ‘contact tracing’ option. The process of recording contact tracing in Ni-kshay is given below.

Process Overview

Video: TB Notification Register

Presumptive TB patients attending the TB Diagnostic centre (TDC) will be referred for sputum examination at the same facility. The patients are given the sputum container with laboratory serial number written on its side. The patient is:

Figure: Sputum Collection Process

After exposure to infective droplets containing M.TB, only a small proportion gets infected and further progresses to active TB disease.

Tuberculosis is transmitted mainly through the air via droplet nuclei generated when a TB patient coughs or sneezes. 

It is estimated that every sputum smear-positive patient spreads the infection to 10 – 15 persons annually, if untreated..

Figure: Transmission of TB bacteria through air via droplet

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TB is caused due to the infection by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis.