Abstract: Objective To explore the tuberculosis control measures in colleges.  Methods TB prevention measures during 2003 to 2007 in 10 collegesin Thai’an were implemented. Measures include health education, setting up student administrators for TB report, freshmen TB screening, preventive therapy, DOT management and close contact investigation etc. Results In contrast with freshmen, sophomores have a significantly higher rate in term of core knowledge awareness(P<0.001),18 cases were detected by passive identification, accounting for 10.7%, 101 cases detected by freshmen TB screening, accounting for 60.1%, 43 cases by student administrators, accounting for 25.6%, and close contacts investigations found 6 cases, accounting for 3.6%. 100% of cases were under DOT management, 100%of cure rate for smear positive patients. TB incidence is significantly lower for students acceptting preventive therapy (χ²=43.634; P<0.001).  Conclusions The prevention measures including health education, setting up administrator for student TB report, freshmen TB screening, preventive therapy, DOT management and close contact investigation play an important role in early detection of TB cases and reducing the spread of TB in colleges.

Key words: tuberculosis, pulmonary/prevention and control, schools