[Characteristics of bacterial excretion in pulmonary tuberculosis patients residents of the Yakut region].

The present state of bacilli excretion in the Yakut area and its certain social aspects are characterized, the detection rate of M. tuberculosis in pulmonary tuberculosis and the sex-age structure are subjected to analysis. Data on the primary and secondary drug resistance, type appertainance of the causative agent and the result of a disinfectant work in the infection foci have been studied in 511 patients having copious bacilli excretion.

[Bacteriologic examination for tuberculosis in subjects from a group at risk].

Laboratory methods were used to test the samples taken from 55,068 people for M. tuberculosis. Inoculation of diagnostic material for M.