title: [The modern state and improvement prospects of community-acquired pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis differential diagnostics].
abstract: The current article is dedicated to the modem state and improvement prospects of community-acquired pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis differential diagnostics. According to the official domestic statistics pulmonary tuberculosis continues to be a serious problem for the Russian Federation. One of the tuberculosis prevention most important factors is its early diagnostics. Unrecognized pulmonary tuberculosis is the leading factor of the in-hospital tuberculosis dissemination. On the basis of the current international and domestic guidelines it is shown that in order to improve the community-acquired pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis differential diagnostics it is necessary to introduce mandatory sputum specimens light-emitting diode microscopy and Xpert-testing of all patients admitted with pulmonary tuberculosis suspecion with airspace opacity/consolidation on chest x-ray as well as their isolation until tuberculosis exclusion.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Dantsev
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Golota
authors.forename: V G
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Karpuschenko
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Krassi
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kuzin
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis*