[Significance of risk groups in pediatric phthisiology].

Detailed analysis of risk factors in 161 children with pulmonary tuberculosis has established that tuberculosis risk-group children are ill in most cases (82.6%). Examining the results of annual tuberculin diagnosis in 2478 children aged 1 to 14 years in a children's city polyclinic could ascertain that the most risk groups comprise children with a conversion of tuberculin tests (5.2%) and tuberculosis-infected children with increased tuberculin sensitivity (7%) who are the basic contingent of followed up local district pediatric phthisiologists. The priorities of activities of pediatric phthisiology involve the detection of tuberculosis risk groups by the general pediatric service by the tuberculin diagnostic technique under the guidance of a phthisiological service and the choice of individual management policy by their pediatric phthisiologists.