[Pulmonary tuberculosis: data of general somatic hospital].

About 20% of phthisiatric patients are identified among pulmonological patients treated in general hospitals. These include not only the subjects having indications in the history, signs of prior tuberculosis and being at risk for the disease, but those with the first detected specific changes in the lung and unregistered in the dispensary, as well as its contingents (including patients with active and basilar pulmonary tuberculosis). In this connection, this emphasizes that the physicians of general somatic hospitals should be more phthisiologically alert by taking into account the poor tuberculosis situation in the country.