[Organization of antituberculous work with homeless in Saint Petersburg]. / Organizatsiia protivotuberkuleznoi raboty s litsami bez opredelennogo mesta zhitel'stva v Sankt-Peterburge.

The paper deals with organizational measures for detection and treatment of homeless persons with tuberculosis in Saint Petersburg. A total of 1653 homeless tuberculosis patients were followed up in 1991-1997. There was high incidence of tuberculosis in homeless persons (30 detected per 1000 examinees. All agencies, facilities, and services should participate in detecting and treating tuberculosis among homeless subjects. Large-scale solution of this problems requires a package of measures by providing additional funds stipulated by a regional goal-oriented tuberculosis control programme.

[Multilevel automatic monitoring system for epidemiological tuberculous process in the north-western region, project and implementation]. / Mnogourovnevaia sistema avtomatizirovannogo slezheniia za épidemiologicheskim protsessom tuberkuleza na territorii severo-zapadnogo regiona, proekt i realizatsiia.

The paper proposes a variant how to solve the problem of complex automation of the work of antituberculous service by using the concept of building up a multilevel automatic informational and analytical system of antituberculous service at the regional level developed at the regional level. The programme product "statistical phthisiologist AMP" for the lower level of the area (urban) antituberculous dispensary which has been developed within this project is given.