[Tuberculosis in children from the Sverdlovsk Region].

The tuberculosis morbidity rate in BGC-unvaccinated infants is 18 times greater than that in BCG-vaccinated infants and 6 times higher than the rate of complications due to BCG vaccination. If a scar due to BCG vaccination is absent or 1-2 mm, the tuberculosis morbidity in children of 3 years of life is 7 times higher than when a 3-mm or more scar has formed after vaccination. The technological failures are main causes of complications due to BCG vaccination.

[Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of renal tuberculosis in children and adolescents].

The clinical manifestations of renal tuberculosis under the present conditions were studied. Seventy one patients with active renal tuberculosis treated at the Moscow Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology and at the Pediatric Department, Yekaterinburg Research- and Production Association Phthisiology were followed up. The morbidity rate of urinary tuberculosis was found to directly depends on whether early detection of the disease is organized.

[Tuberculosis mortality in Sverdlovsk Region].

Tuberculosis mortality is 9.3 times higher in men than in women. Women more commonly recover and less frequently die from progressive tuberculosis.

[Tuberculosis morbidity in the Sverdlovsk region].

Childhood and adolescence tuberculosis morbidity rates are higher in girls than in boys. Adult males fall ill 5.3 times more frequently than adult females.