[The role of groups with high risk of tuberculosis in developing patients' contingents in the anti-tuberculosis clinics].

The role of the highest tuberculosis risk groups in the enlargement of dispensary contingents increases under conditions of endemic tuberculosis decline while it is less manifest in the epidemiologically unfavourable regions. Risk contingents of polyclinics should be supplemented by a socially unfavourable group of subjects who together with patients having several risk factors and those with severe diabetes mellitus are the most vulnerable with respect to tuberculosis.