[Tuberculosis cases in the Czech Republic in 2009].

Background: The number of notified tuberculosis cases in the Czech Republic in 2009 was lower than in 2008. 710 new tuberculosis cases and relapses were reported.

Material And Methods: 598 cases were pulmonary tuberculosis and from them 439 were proved pulmonary tuberculosis cases.

[Analysis of symptoms and case history data in the set of 353 patients with lung cancer].

Background: Lung cancer (LC) incidence in men in the Czech Republic has been declining since 1995, in women it grows up continually. To analyse the characteristics of recent set of patients (pts) and contribution of their symptoms for diagnostic, treatment and prognosis we carried on the retrospective study on patients from 1st Pulmonary department from 2004-2007.

Methods And Results: Men:women ratio in the set of 353 pts was 2:1.

[Tuberculosis in Czech Republic in the year 2007].

Background: The number of notified tuberculosis cases in the Czech Republic decreased in the year 2007. 871 new tuberculosis cases and relapses were reported in the year 2007 (8.4/100 000 inhabitants).

[Tuberculosis among foreigners in the Czech Republic 2003-2006].

Authors compared the situation in tuberculosis among foreigners in the Czech Republic during the years 2003-2006. Foreigners participated in 13.0-14.

[Treatment of lung carcinoma patients at the First Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases].

Lung carcinoma (BCA) represents the most frequent malignancy in men and the fourth most frequent one in women. In 2004, 5568 persons died from that disease. Study of the lung carcinoma has been the main research program of the First Department of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General Teaching Hospital since 1960.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic].

Tuberculosis is a general infectious inflammatory disease caused by the bacillus (mycobacterium) tuberculosis. The disease originated when the bacillus was transmitted from affected cattle herds to humans. Genetic methods proved the existence of tuberculosis in mummies of the ancient Egypt.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic during 2006].

Background: In the Czech Republic the number of all notified tuberculosis cases decreased in the year 2006. 973 (9.5/100,000) all tuberculosis cases of new diseases and relapses were reported.

[Incidence, diagnostics and therapy of the lung cancer in the Czech Republic in 2003].

Lung cancer epidemic has not ended. According to the data on the incidence and mortality in the Czech Republic it is obvious that both parameters decline in males; the rise in women probably ends. According to the present epidemiological parameters the number of new cases is still very high.

[Diagnostics and indications of surgical treatment of patients with lung carcinoma at the first clinic of TRN of the first faculty of medicine and the VFN Prague in years 2004 to 2005].

Background: Results of the diagnostics and indications of surgical treatment of patients with lung carcinoma (BCA) at the First clinic in years 2004 to 2005 were evaluated in a retrospective study.

Methods And Results: The cohort of 209 patients with the male to female ratio of 2 to 1 included 63 % of current smokers, 22 % of former smokers and 15 % of non-smokers. BCA was diagnosed in significantly earlier age in smokers in comparison to former smokers or non-smokers.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 2005].

Background: The number of notified TB cases decreased in the year 2005, when 1007 new TB cases and relapses were reported (9.9/100,000 inhabitants).

Methods And Results: 838 cases were pulmonary TB (8.

[Extent of tuberculin skin testing spot in bacteriologically verified tuberculosis].

Background: Tuberculin skin test was evaluated in patients with bacteriologically verified tuberculosis notified in the Czech Republic during 2003 and 2004.

Methods And Results: Out of 1172 patients with bacteriologically verified tuberculosis altogether 28.8% were tuberculin-negative.

[Lung cancer operability--history and presence].

Review of contemporary publication on the operability of lung cancer in the Czech Republic and in other countries is presented. Since 1912, when 374 cases of lung cancer were described, the incidence has risen and culminated towards the end of the 20th century. From the available treatment modalities, surgery gives the best results.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in the year 2004].

The number of notified TB cases in the Czech Republic continued to decrease in the year 2004. 1057 new TB cases and relapses of TB were reported in the year 2004 (10.3 / 100,000).

[Resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to antituberculotic drugs in Czech Republic in 2003].

Background: The results of Mycobacterium tuberculosis susceptibility testing in 2003 were analysed in 568 (84%) pulmonary TB definite cases in the Czech Republic.

Methods And Results: The resistance on antituberculotic drugs was detected in 4.9% of TB bacilli.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 2003].

Background: 1162 new cases of tuberculosis were diagnosed in the Czech Republic in 2003; pulmonary tuberculosis represented 942 cases and in 660 cases the diagnosis of tuberculosis was bacteriologically confirmed.

Methods And Results: 355 cases were smear positive tuberculosis. The increase of certain TB cases (70%) in 2003 compared to 2002 is not statistically significant (p = 0.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 2002].

Background: The number of all notified TB cases decreased in the year 2002. 1200 (11.8/100,000) cases of new TB diseases and relapses were reported in the year 2002.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in the year 2000].

Background: Incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in the Czech Republic (CR) during the year 2000 was evaluated on the basis of newly detected cases as well the restriction of known TB sources by antituberculosis treatment. Data from compulsory reported TB cases in the TB register for the year 2000 were used as well as data from the analysis of treatment in cohorts of patients reported quarterly in 1999 and evaluated 12 months later.

Methods And Results: 1442 cases of new diseases and TB relapses were reported in 2000 (14.

[Multiresistant tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 1998 and causes of its occurrence].

Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) belongs to the most serious forms of TB. The number of MDR-TB patients represents an indicator of the effectiveness of TB regimentation. The aim of the study was to determine the number of registered MDR-TB patients in CR in 1998 and to identify causes of the resistance.

Is quarterly cohort analysis useful for assessing treatment outcomes in a low incidence country?

Setting: In the Czech Republic, a country regarded as having a low incidence of tuberculosis (TB), short-course chemotherapy (SCC) of TB has been implemented in routine practice country-wide.

Objective: To assess the outcome of SCC by quarterly cohort analysis of patients using the methodology recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Design: Patients with newly detected bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB notified in 1998 were treated according to local recommendations (SCC) or with the WHO-recommended DOTS strategy.

Screening of TB contacts by tuberculin skin tests in a low-incidence community by BCG vaccination.

A 36-year-old man, an unemployed waiter, a regular patron of two bars living in a Czech city suffered for about a year from disorders caused probably by tuberculosis (TB). When hospitalised, diabetes mellitus and extensive lung TB were diagnosed. TB was found also at the post mortem examination when the patient died one week later.

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 1999].

Report is given on the tuberculosis (TB) prevalence and the new diseases monitoring in Czech Republic (CR) in 1999 using the register of notifiable TB diseases. 1631 new TB cases and relapse were notified (15.9/100,000 citizens).

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 1998].

In Czech Republic (CR) the epidemiological situation in tuberculosis (TB) was evaluated in 1998 using the notification TB into the TB register. 1805 new TB cases and relapses were notified (17.5/100,000 citizens).

[Tuberculosis in the Czech Republic in 1997].

In the Czech Republic in 1997 1834 new cases of TB and relapses were notified, i.e. 17.

Tuberculosis control and surveillance in changing health reform in the Czech Republic.

In the Czech Republic a centralized, governmentally budgeted and vertically structured health system has been reformed to a liberalized health system with fragmentation of organisation, responsibilities and funding after 1989. Tuberculosis (TB) control and TB surveillance followed the general health system reform and implementation of liberalized health insurance system. In the liberalized health system the feasibility and accessibility of methods of TB control rather improved.

A cost-benefit analysis of BCG revaccination in the Czech Republic.

We assessed the direct and indirect economic costs and benefits of the current policy of revaccinating tuberculin-negative schoolchildren in the Czech Republic. The analysis is conducted from the perspective of the payer for health care. In considering whether revaccination should be discontinued, we consistently made assumptions which tend to favor revaccination.