The Lancet Infectious Disease
Mar 2010  Volume 10 Number 3  Pages 139 – 212
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/issue/current

Review
Tuberculosis and air travel: a systematic review and analysis of policy
Abrahim Abubakar

Preview
WHO international guidelines for the control of tuberculosis in relation to air travel require—after a risk assessment—tracing of passengers who sat for longer than 8 h in rows adjacent to people with pulmonary tuberculosis who are smear positive or smear negative. A further recommendation is that all commercial air travel should be prohibited until the person has two consecutive negative sputum smears for drug-susceptible tuberculosis or two consecutive cultures for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.