[Clinical characteristics of pulmonary tuberculosis detected in groups at risk].

It was established according to dispensarization data that more than a half of all patients with freshly detected pulmonary tuberculosis were revealed among the contingents of risk groups (54.6%), i.e. significantly more frequent than among other groups of the population diagnosed during prophylactic fluorography and characterized by larger extension, severity of clinical disorders, prevalence of infiltrative and disseminated forms and frequency of bacteria elimination and the clinical cure was essentially lower as compared with patients showing no aggravating factors. Cessation of bacteria elimination, healing of caverns of disintegration was similar in the groups.