and Epidemiological Characteristics of Tuberculosis in Children in the Astrakhan Region release_ateby5qlofe3nbsudiwmufoaya

Abstract

The article presents the results of the analysis of the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis in children of the Astrakhan region for the period from 2013 to 2017. The incidence of tuberculosis of children in the region exceeds the average Russian Federation 2.9, the southern Federal district in 3.2 time. In the structure of morbidity of children is dominated by tuberculosis of intrathoracic lymph nodes (75.6%). The increase of tuberculosis morbidity of children population of the region could also be: the increasing incidence and delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults introduction in practice of modern methods of diagnostics (computer tomography, PCR, Diaskintest) allowing to identify the disease in a larger number of patients, lack of alertness of doctors of general medical network on early diagnosis of tuberculosis.
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