title: [Significance of a children's tuberculosis sanatorium].
abstract: 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.
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Sirenko
authors.forename: N M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Podoprigora
authors.forename: O Iu
authors.initials: OIu
authors.lastname: Marchenko
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shmat'ko
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Tret'iakov
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Petrosiants
mesh_terms: 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