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[(50) "Social work associate" means any person licensed to practice as a social work associate in this State. ] [(50-1)] (78) (text unchanged) [(51)] (79) "Speech pathologist" means [a person] an individual licensed by the State Board of Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, and Speech-Language Pathologists. [(52)] (80) "Supportive personnel" an aide, assigned to a particular service such as nursing, dietary, physical therapy, or occupational therapy, who has been approved by the chief of the services as having sufficient training and experience to perform [his] the assigned duties. [(52-1)] (81) (text unchanged) [(53)] (82) Tuberculosis in a Communicable Form. (a) (text unchanged) (b) "Tuberculosis in a communicable form" does not include: (i) When the individual [with presumed or confirmed active disease] who has presumed or confirmed active disease, has had three negative AFB smears[at least] , collected 8—24 hours apart, shows clinical improvement, and has received chemotherapy to which the strain is susceptible for at least 14 days; or (ii) The individual [with] who has inactive scars, calcification, or a normal chest X-ray. [(54) "Tuberculosis suspect" means an individual who has a cough lasting more than 3 weeks and at least one other symptom that is compatible with active tuberculosis including bloody sputum, night sweats, weight loss, or fever.] [(55)] (83) "Two-step tuberculin skin testing" means the administration of a second tuberculin skin test 1 to 3 weeks after the initial [PPD] skin test is negative, to distinguish a boosted reaction from a reaction that is due to new infection.
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