Abstract

During last ten years, in the Republic of Dagestan a steady decreasing of main epidemiological indices of tuberculosis (morbidity, mortality, etc.) is observed. The efficiency of treatment of patients with tuberculosis increased significantly. Besides, the new problems moved to forefront which don't fit with this trend. They are high contamination, presence of significant percentage of secondary forms of tuberculosis among children and adolescents, preservation of high morbidity of tuberculosis among individuals detected from contact with patients with BK+, annual increasing of of number of late recurrence and medication-resistant forms of tuberculosis of lungs, increasing of percentage of patients with detected mycobacterium of tuberculosis of bovine type - M.bovinus. Every one of these problems requires profound investigation for making address organizational decisions in groups of increased risk of development of tuberculosis.

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