ABSTRACT
The recent rise in the incidence of allergic diseases, including allergic dermatoses, requires a comprehensive approach to solving a number of problems associated with this disease. Analyzing the case reports of 62 children with allergic dermatoses has indicated that this is a particular contingent of children, which needs a more careful approach to different preventive measures, to interpreting tuberculin reactions and hence to substantiating the use chemotherapeutical prevention. A graded skin tuberculin test and an immunological study should be performed in critical cases.
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Dermatitis, Allergic Contact/epidemiology , Hypersensitivity, Delayed/epidemiology , Tuberculin/therapeutic use , Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/prevention & control , Child , Humans , Hypersensitivity, Delayed/diagnosis , Male , Tuberculin/adverse effectsABSTRACT
The authors' findings suggest that the clinical pattern of tuberculosis morbidity in adults and children has recently become worse. Severe caseous pneumonia with its acute onset and malignant course by the type of galloping consumption with massive bacterial isolation and deaths in 42.8% of cases was analyzed. The complicated course mainly of the primary tuberculosis complex (40.8%) and tuberculosis of the intrathoracic lymph nodes was seen in 25% of ill children. Tuberculous meningitis was diagnosed in 20% of cases in the morbidity pattern of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The reasons for late detection of disease are the poor organization of prophylactic fluorographic examinations of the adult population, tuberculin diagnosis, vaccination, revaccination of BCG and chemoprophylaxis in children at risk. The authors note unawareness of tuberculosis among the adult population, which was found through questionnaires.
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Mass Screening/methods , Tuberculosis/diagnostic imaging , Tuberculosis/etiology , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Male , Middle Aged , Morbidity , Quality of Life , Radiography , Retrospective Studies , Risk Factors , Surveys and Questionnaires , Survival Rate , Tuberculosis/epidemiologyABSTRACT
Circulating antituberculous antibodies in the sera from 89 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and 11 patients with tumors and nonspecific inflammation in the lungs were evaluated using indirect hemagglutination and enzyme immunoassay. Specific antibodies were detected in 81.6 and 30% of tuberculous and nontuberculous patients, respectively.
