title: [Detection of pulmonary tuberculosis among the adolescent population at the stage of primary health care].
abstract: A retrospective look was made on the estimation of the diagnostic value of preclinical and clinical methods for verification of pulmonary tuberculosis. Among 170 examinees, 65.5% were self-directed, 24.7% diagnosed by fluorography and 8.8% by tuberculin skin testing in account with clinical signs, forms of tuberculosis, bacteriological results and peculiarities of tuberculin sensitivity. The findings show the poor result of timely diagnosis of tuberculosis by the use of prophylactic examination of teenagers by fluorography and tuberculin skin testing.
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Il'inskaia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008400:Mass Chest X-Ray / Q000379:methods*; D009017:Morbidity; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014374:Tuberculin Test / Q000379:methods*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology