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Title 1200 - Health, Environment and ConservationSubtitle 1200-14 - Bureau of Health Services Administration Division of Communicable and Environmental Disease Services AIDS Program Division
Chapter 1200-14-01 - Communicable and Environmental Diseases
Section 1200-14-01-.16 - MINIMUM PERIODS OF COMMUNICABILITY

Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-14-01-.16

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Section 1200-14-01-.16 - MINIMUM PERIODS OF COMMUNICABILITY

For the purpose of these regulations, the minimum periods of communicability for clinical or inapparent (subclinical) cases of the diseases named in these regulations shall be determined by the Commissioner, or his designated representative, using guidance in current resources named in section. 15(3) and/or from medical consultants within the Department. The period of communicability of a specific disease shall be observed by local health officers in controlling spread of the disease and shall run from the onset of the earliest symptoms or laboratory evidence of an infectious state until the use of medications and/or laboratory tests and/or the course of the disease indicates that the person is no longer able to transmit the infection.

Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1200-14-01-.16

Original rule certified June 7, 1974. Repeal and new rule filed March 31, 1977; effective May 2, 1977. Amendment filed April 20, 1987; effective June 4, 1987.

Authority: T.C.A. § 68-5-104(q).