[Significance of a children's tuberculosis sanatorium].
The paper analyzes a contingent of children and adolescents from a tuberculous sanatorium in 2000-2002. It was established that the children and adolescents with local forms of tuberculosis amounted to 14.5%, the children with a variety of tuberculin reactions were 33.5%; the children infected with tuberculosis and risk factors were 42.1%; the total proportion of children who had contacted patients with tuberculosis was 31.7% of the whole contingent of the sanatorium, i.e. about a third. In addition to different manifestations of tuberculous infection, nonspecific abnormalities were detected in 96.4% of the children and adolescents, in the vast majority they being first diagnosed at the sanatorium. The foregoing suggests that a children's tuberculosis sanatorium is of great medical importance under the present conditions.
Sirenko
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IA
Podoprigora
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NM
Marchenko
O Iu
OIu
Shmat'ko
S A
SA
Tret'iakov
S D
SD
Petrosiants
T M
TM
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006294:Health Resorts; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D014455:Ukraine / Q000453:epidemiology