[Implication of microbiological sputum assay in the detection of the lower lung lobular tuberculosis].

Patients with lower lung lobular tuberculosis are shown to be detectable on their visit to a doctor. The diagnostic period lasts several months. Following the WHO recommendations to make a microscopic study of sputum in general health care facilities among persons with suspected tuberculosis allowed the diagnosis to be established in 78.

[Questionnaire survey of patients with tuberculosis: bioethical aspects].

An anonymous questionnaire was filled by 129 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis to study bioethical aspects. It contained questions concerning a patient's attitude to obtaining full information on his/her disease, treatments, and physician-patient relations, keeping his/her disease confidential from the relatives, controlled and obligatory treatments.