[Application of the Upper Council of Health recommendations in the respiratory isolation of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis at Liège University Hospital.].

The fight against tuberculosis is a public health objective at the world level. The prevention of the hospital-borne tuberculosis by an adequate isolation of the contagious patients is inescapable to eliminate the tuberculosis in Belgium. The Upper Council of the Health set up recommendations relative to the duration and the criteria of the isolation discontinuation.