title: [Epidemiology and clinical picture of tuberculosis in children in an ecologically unfavorable coastal zone near the Aral Sea].
abstract: Tuberculosis epidemiology was studied in children living in the Ara Sea costal region, in particular in the Karakalpakia, where tuberculosis incidence is twice as high as in the whole region on the average. In conditions of mass dispensarization of the population the rate of tuberculosis detection in children who undergo fluorographic examination from the age of 7 years was 0.06%. In 35% of tuberculosis children the disease took an aggravated course, 68% had intoxication symptoms, 84.6% polylymphadenitis, 23% anemia and 76% presented inhibition of immune reactivity in the form of a decreased number of T-lymphocytes and suppression of their functional activity.
authors.forename: R I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Zakharova
authors.forename: E V
authors.initials: EV
authors.lastname: Piataeva
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004463:Ecology; D006801:Humans; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014610:Uzbekistan / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Epidemiologiia i klinika tuberkuleza u deteĭ v ékologicheski neblagpoluchnoĭ zone Priaral'ia.