title: [Primary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its carriage in children and adolescents from familial foci of tuberculosis infection].
abstract: The paper presents the results of sociohygienic and epidemiological monitoring of 133 children and adolescents from familial tuberculous foci. Primary infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MBT) was detected in 26 (19.5 +/- 3.4) patients and its carriage was found in 60 (45.1 +/- 4.3 per 100 contact children and adolescents). The rate of primary MBT infection and carriage is largely determined by the social personality of a bacterial isolating personality, by the level of his/her sanitary culture, by his/her adequate attitude towards treatment, by the duration and nature of his/her contacts with those who have had contacts with infected persons, as well as by household and sanitary conditions in the focus. The sources of infection were significantly more frequently fathers, the handicapped or unemployed, chronic alcoholics, prisoners, those who had a low level of sanitary culture, who had an inadequate attitude towards treatment and had a resultant generalized destructive process in the lung and a permanent bacterial carriage.
authors.forename: I K
authors.initials: IK
authors.lastname: Tkhabisimova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002353:Carrier State; D002648:Child; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*