| Abstract: | Investigation of the tuberculous process of the respiratory organs in 120 adolescents showed that the disease was more frequent in female persons (61.7 per cent). Schoolchildren amounted to 52.6 per cent. Prophylactic examinations revealed 50 per cent of the patients. 38.3 per cent of the patients were detected on their taking medical advice. With the Mantoux test with 2 TU of PPD-L only 5 per cent of the patients were detected. Infiltrative tuberculosis in 53.3 per cent of the patients was recorded. In the majority of the patients, the signs of tuberculosis were insignificant. However, in 44.2 per cent of the adolescents, the process was accompanied by destructions. In 86.7 per cent of the patients the process was primary by its genesis. Pronounced clinical signs of tuberculosis in 36.7 per cent of the adolescents were due to extended processes in 68 per cent of the cases. The phase of destruction in them reached 86.6 per cent. 39.7 per cent of the patients were from tuberculosis foci with insufficient prophylactic and antiepidemic measures. To lower the incidence of tuberculosis in adolescents it is necessary to increase the measures for tuberculosis detection in them and to improve the quality of prophylaxis in tuberculosis foci. |
