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The paper characterizes the laboratory service that carries out microbiological tests to diagnose tuberculosis in 12 and 9 subjects of the Siberian and Far Eastern Federal Districts, respectively.
The efficiency of tuberculosis detection was evaluated by light microscopy of Ziehl-Neelsen- stained smears during primary health care for the population. There were changes in the efficiency of detection using different microbiological diagnostic methods in the bacteriological laboratories of tuberculosis facilities in 2008 to 2012.
Emphasis is laid on the topical moments in laboratory service work, which require further improvement and optimization.
The children and adolescents of the Siberian Federal District continue to have high tuberculosis morbidity rates that are 1.5-1.7 times greater than the average Russian rate. The severe clinical pattern of tuberculosis is noted among new tuberculosis cases. Preventive measures are insufficiently effective.
To improve the quality of antituberculosis care to the children and adolescents of the Siberian Federal District, it is necessary to coordinate the work of a specialized and general health service on the specific prevention and early detection of tuberculosis among the children and adolescents; to solve the problem associated with discontacts in the everyday foci of tuberculosis infection; to improve the material and technical basis of children’s sanatoria; to observe infection control measures in children’s hospitals and units (to allow for the reconstruction of existing buildings and the construction of new ones); and to brisk up the work on sanitary education of the population.
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ISSN 2542-1506 (Online)