title: Risk factors for tuberculosis and specific manifestations of disease.
abstract: In countries with good epidemiological situation, incidence of tuberculosis (TB) is relatively high in immigrants, prisoners, the homeless and unemployed. In a number of regions, co-infection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and HIV raises difficulties in controlling TB epidemic. A problematic issue is also drug resistance, especially in the countries of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Neither co-infection of M.tuberculosis and HIV nor drug resistance are of special concern in Poland. Incidence of extrapulmonary TB is very diverse (6-44%), however, in Poland such manifestation of tuberculosis is diagnosed rarely. There is a necessity of monitoring local epidemiological trends and developing appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic models for better control of infection.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Warsaw Medical University.
authors.forename: Tadeusz M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Zielonka
mesh_terms: D017677:Age Distribution; D060085:Coinfection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D055030:Drug Users / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D011329:Prisoners / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012307:Risk Factors; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*