[Effectiveness of tuberculosis vaccines].

BCG revaccination in the Sverdlovsk Region is performed thrice: at the age of 5, 10 and 15 years. The percent of children covered by tuberculin diagnosis and BCG vaccination is growing. Complications of BCG vaccination remain at the same level.

[Tuberculosis mortality in Sverdlovsk Region].

Tuberculosis mortality is 9.3 times higher in men than in women. Women more commonly recover and less frequently die from progressive tuberculosis.

[Impact of tuberculosis in penal labor facilities on the epidemiological situation in the Sverdlovsk region].

The unfavourable tuberculosis situation in the corrective labour facilities affects the main rates of tuberculosis in the region. Presently, the total registered cases of tuberculosis among prisoners are 36.7 times as high as those in the age-matched general population of the Sverdlovsk Region.

[Tuberculosis in psychoneurological boarding houses of Sverdlovsk region].

Since 1993, the pace of increased tuberculosis mortality and morbidity rates in patients with mental disorders has essentially out-stripped that for the general population in the Sverdlovsk Region. At the same time, the highest tuberculosis mortality and morbidity rates were seen in contingents of psychoneurological boarding houses (PBH) where not only sporadic (single), but group cases of tuberculosis, as well as its outbreaks (epidemics), including massive ones has been annually notified in recent years. In 1993-1996, the mean morbidity rate among those present in PBH was 10.

[Tuberculosis mortality in Sverdlovsk region under the present conditions].

The tuberculosis mortality rate is the most informative epidemiological indicator. Tuberculosis mortality in the Sverdlovsk Region in 1989-1996 directly, closely, and significantly correlated with tuberculosis morbidity and general mortality. The structure of manpower losses caused by premature tuberculosis mortality due to antituberculosis work defects included one third of losses associated with the defects of antituberculosis work, about one fourth of those with the general therapeutical network, one tenth of those with sanitary epidemiological surveillance centers and another approximately one third with failure of detection and treatment of patients with tuberculosis.