The epidimiological aspects of the control for cronic drug-resistant tuberculosis patients

The results of the dispensary control for 188 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis having been analysed during 3—5 years; those patients hadn’t received the adequate chemical therapy: 50% — died because of growing more serious tuberculosis in the first 2 years of the control, 33% — the process...

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Main Authors: A. L. Khanin, S. A. Dolgikh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Siberian State Medical University (Tomsk) 2012-06-01
Series:Бюллетень сибирской медицины
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Online Access:https://bulletin.ssmu.ru/jour/article/view/519
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Summary:The results of the dispensary control for 188 patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis having been analysed during 3—5 years; those patients hadn’t received the adequate chemical therapy: 50% — died because of growing more serious tuberculosis in the first 2 years of the control, 33% — the process became cronic, 7,4% — self-recovered, 9,6% — left for other places or for the prison hospitals. Some patients are known to infect with drug-resistant strains MBT nearly 1 500 people every year, thus keeping the circulation among town population DR/MBT as well as the high level of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases.
ISSN:1682-0363
1819-3684