Source: Annual Congress 2006 - Clinical aspects of tuberculosis
Disease area: Respiratory infections

Abstract

We analyzed the causes of continuous increase of a tuberculosis morbidity and death in Ukrain at present. The especially dramatic situation has developed among children, who live in polluted territories. So, the amount of sick children of tuberculosis at pollution zones has increased since 1990 to 2004 in about 250-300 %.
We‘ve examined 1136 children both in the city of Irpen and White Church plus 1108 pupils from three schools in the city of Kiev. Efficiency tuberculosis chemoprophilaxis studied in 105 children, infected by MTB with clinical signs of immunologic insufficiency. The low efficiency of the preventive TB chemotherapy in these children, especially with having proof expressed and hypersensitivity type of reaction to tuberculin, leads to urgent search of new ways of its management.Besides sharp deterioration of social conditions in life for the majority of population, defective meal, unsuccessful ecological environment, medical-biological consequences of failure in Chernobyl Atom Power Station and some other factors negatively influence the health of population. Each year the number of TB infected children has been growing. They are accompanied by acute or chronic non-specific body infection in combination with genetic or acquired immune deficit. It is necessary to study the TB infectiousness in children‘s population for the correct characteristics of epidemic situation in tuberculosis, for calculation of volume infection, for definition of a degree and directions of prevalence the disease, and also for planning measures in the way of preventive maintenance and early revealing of a tuberculosis among different groups of children‘s population.

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V. O. Strizh (Kyiv, Ukraine). Changes in a tubercular situation after emergency at Chernobyl Atom Power Station. Eur Respir J 2006; 28: Suppl. 50, 825

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