[The state-of-the-art of Russia's Laboratory Tuberculosis Diagnosis Service: basic problems and ways of their overcoming].

The authors have revealed the acutest problems of laboratory tuberculosis diagnosis service in the Russian Federation. They have made their conclusion on this issue and developed the following recommendations: to continue the reorganization of Russia's laboratory tuberculosis diagnosis service; to reconstruct and repair laboratories; to provide them with up-to-date equipment; to make a full-scale training of laboratory workers; to standardize the procedures of microbiological tests for tuberculosis; to organize bacteriological tuberculosis service monitoring in Russia, including monitoring of tuberculosis-controlling facilities; to develop and officially approve a number of normative documents (current standards for the time spent on working operations and criteria for estimating the load on the personnel performing the procedures of a study, new staff lists for laboratories, the level and structure of salaries in the laboratory's personnel).