FEATURES OF THE RESISTANT FORMS OF A SPECIFIC PROCESS AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENAGERS FROM THE MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOUS INFECTION FOCI: CLINICAL PICTURE AND DIAGNOSTICS.

Among 256 patients examined, 145 were diagnosed with multidrug-resistant pulmonary TB: 67 children and 78 teenagers from the focies with the multidrug-resistant TB (the main group), and 111 patients (35 children and 76 teenagers) from the focies with a chemosensitive TB (the control group). Molecular genetic testing of sputum, including the GeneXpert MTB / RIF method and the Hain Lifesciences linear probe analysis, was used to diagnose MRTB. It was found that the pulmonary TB was by 4.