Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology

2004 April, Vol. VII, No. 1 (pp.2439-2446)

The Incidence of Tuberculosis Micobacterium Infected School­children in North Lithuania

Dane Slapkauskaite, Tatjana Agejeva, Vilma Rasiuliene, Valdone Miseviciene, Arunas Valiulis

The go­al of our stu­dy was to eva­lu­a­te the amount of TB in­fec­ted scho­ol­chil­dren in Rad­vi­liškis re­gion of Lit­hu­a­nia using both tra­di­tio­nal East Eu­ro­pe­an and WHO ap­ro­ved met­hods of de­ter­ming of tu­ber­cu­lo­sis mi­co­bac­te­rium in­fec­ted per­sons. It was in­ves­ti­ga­ted scho­ol­chil­dren po­pu­la­tion of 13–18 years of age. It was found 12,59 ± 1,99 perc. of TM in­fec­ted chil­dren using tra­di­tio­nal East Eu­ro­pe­an met­hod and on­ly 4,89 ± 2,08 perc. using WHO re­com­men­ded met­hod. Due to avoid both TB hi­per- and hi­po­diag­nos­tics in East Eu­ro­pe­an coun­tries we ne­ed to eva­lu­a­te on­ce again the met­hods of de­tec­ting of tu­ber­cu­lo­sis mi­co­bac­te­rium in­fec­ted scho­ol­chil­dren.

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