[New approaches to formation of registration group of individuals followed up by antituberculosis institutions in Uzbekistan].

The paper presents the results of a three-year (2000-2002) follow-up of the movement of dispensary contingents registered in tuberculosis facilities in order to develop new dispensary groups. The dispensary groups of patients with active forms of tuberculosis have been ascertained to accumulate a great number of patients with its inactive forms due to the untimely of their transfer to the inactive groups in terms of effective treatment and the clinical forms of tuberculosis. New dispensary grouping will more definitely regulate the transfer of patients from active to inactive groups and strike from the list of dispensary patients.

[Prevalence of tuberculosis and its specific clinical features in children].

A retrospective study of epidemiological indices of tuberculosis in children in the Republic of Uzbekistan for the past 20 years has shown that tuberculosis morbidity rates have increased by 65.4% and by 114% in children living in the foci of tuberculosis infection. The greatest increase in its morbidity rates is observed in the Aral Sea region, which is accompanied by worse social, environmental, and economic situations.

[Tuberculosis morbidity trends among children, adolescents and young adults in Uzbekistan].

After a declining period by the mid-1980s and its stabilization in 1985-1995, the morbidity rates of tuberculosis in Uzbekistan increased in 1996 by 20.7% as compared to 1995, by 24% among children in the past decade, and 2 times among adolescents and young individuals aged under 30 years within 5 years. The rise of mortality rates is accompanied by aggravation of the clinical forms of the tuberculosis cases detected.

[Epidemiology of tuberculosis in Tashkent and ways of its improvement].

The epidemiological situation over 26 years (1970-1996) is characterized. There is a rise in tuberculosis morbidity, mortality, and detection and a deterioration of the pattern of clinical forms of tuberculosis detected with the reduced coverage of the population to be screened for tuberculosis. Measures at stabilizing the further spread of tuberculosis infection among the population and reducing morbidity rates are outlined.

[The organization of prophylactic measures among children living in rural foci of tuberculous infection].

An epidemiological situation in the foci of tuberculous infection was studied in some rural areas of Uzbekistan. 74.1 per cent of the children lived in the foci of tuberculous infection estimated as belonging to group I epidemiological risk.