[Tuberculosis in the industrial environment. Epidemiological aspects and preventive measures].

An analysis is made of the tuberculous endemia in several of the most important industrial branches over the last years, as compared with the endemy outside the industrial environment. Although the global morbidity through tuberculosis in industrial enterprises has declined to approximately one half of the initial values (considering the year 1975 as the basis), it is still above the level in the territory. The gap between the two curves, much wider at the beginning of the interval, has narrowed consistently with time.

[Risk factors and high-risk groups in the prevention of tuberculosis].

Starting from the premise that in the methodology of tuberculosis control priority should be given to the higher risk groups, the authors tried to identify such groups and list them in the order of their priority within the district of a dispensary serving a population of about 400,000 inhabitants. On comparing the results of the detection of risk factors among the population in general with that per endangered groups it was found that the former presented a decrease (from 1.09 to 0.