[Osteoarticular tuberculosis: clinical and social aspects].

A hundred and ninety four history cases of inpatients were analyzed to study such clinical and social aspects of active osteoarticular tuberculosis as age-sex structure; a role of residence, occupation, and bad habits in the onset of the disease; the pattern of clinical forms and complications; bacterial isolation rates; the incidence of mixed forms and complications. The major clinical symptoms and outcomes are described.

[Immunologic indices of the blood and synovial fluid before and after subcutaneous administration of tuberculin in patients with osteoarticular tuberculosis].

The contents of immunoglobulins, T-lymphocytes, immune rosette-forming cells and indirect hemagglutination test titer in serum and in synovial fluid before and after subcutaneous tuberculin were found in 44 patients with locomotor diseases of different etiology. A comparative assessment of immunologic indices in different groups of patients made in possible to substantiate diagnostic criteria surgical tuberculosis.