[Some specific features of temporary and persistent disability in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis].

Disability was analyzed in 270 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis detected in 1995-1997. Today the level of disability and its associated expenses on payment of allowances due to the working incapacity of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis are more and more determined by different poor social factors, such as the specific features of the labour market, unemployment, lower living conditions of most patients with this disease.