title: [Specific features of tuberculosis in infants].
abstract: Examining active tuberculosis in 38 infants has established the following features: the disease is characterized by predominantly (71%) classical forms of primary tuberculosis; moreover, a primary tuberculosis complex is more common (41.7%) than tuberculosis of intrathoracic lymph nodes (26.3%); by complicated tuberculosis in more than a third of the infants, by extrapulmonary tuberculosis in 23.7%, and by the affliction of 2 systems in 13.2%. Tuberculosis runs most severely in children under 1 year of age. The group at the highest risk for tuberculosis may include infants contacting patients with tuberculosis (65.8%), ill vaccinated infants with BCG (89.4%), infants with symptoms of intoxication and thoracic complaints (79.3%), and those with hyperergic and pronounced sensitivity to tuberculin.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Sirenko
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shmat'ko
authors.forename: O Iu
authors.initials: OIu
authors.lastname: Marchenko
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Podoprigora
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology