Tuberculosis among labor migrants in the Republic of Tajikistan

Abstract

In the structure of patients with tuberculosis, labor migrants in 2021 in the Republic of Tajikistan amounted to 16.9%. Among labor migrants with tuberculosis there were men - 85.0%, most of whom were young people aged 19-29 years. Of the total number of TB patients, identified in 2021who was in migration, 68.6% suffered from pulmonary forms of tuberculosis, 73.9% of which were bacterial excretory. Among labor migrants, 79.0% of patients suffered from an infiltrative form, 10.1% - focal, 4.6% - disseminated, tuberculoma - 4.2%, extrapulmonary forms of tuberculosis were detected in 10.6% of cases.