Table 6.4.

Organisms and conditions requiring airborne transmission-based precautions

•Hemorrhagic fevers •Lassa fever •Marburg virus disease •Mycobacteria, tuberculous •Pneumonia •SARS (coronavirus) •Smallpox (variola) •Smallpox vaccine (vaccinia) from UCSF •Tuberculosis (TB) including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) •Vaccinia