TB INFECTION CONTROL METHODS IN TEENAGERS IN PRIMORSKY REGION
For the analysis of the epidemiological situation of tuberculosis in teenagers in Primorsky Region from 1994 to 2010 were examined the morbidity rates, clinical structure and methods of detecting the disease. The research revealed that at the turn of the centuries in Primorsky Region remains tense epidemiological situation on tuberculosis, that is associated with increasing the morbidity of tuberculosis in teenagers which is characterized by severe clinical structure with a high proportion of the phase of decay and bacterial excretion. Since 2003 it was marked the appearance of drug-resistant forms of the disease, the proportion of which is constantly increasing. Also is increasing the proportion of teenagers with multiresistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to anti-TB drugs. These factors have caused to consider the problem of early detection of active TB infection in this age group as a priority one.