[Prevalence and clinical aspects of tuberculosis in children and adolescents in the Primorsk Region].

The analysis of epidemiological trends in tuberculosis registered for 13 years in children and adolescents living in the Primorsky Region of Russia discovered a trend to an increase of its incidence rate especially in girls and rural population. The morbidity of children aged 4-6, schoolchildren and adolescents aged 17 reached in 1993 137, 22.9 and 62.8 per 100,000 people, respectively. Tuberculosis of the respiratory organs occurred most frequently. In children tuberculosis of intrathoracic lymph nodes was encounted in 88.2% of new cases, in adolescents focal and infiltrative forms were recorded in 27 and 50.8%, respectively. Worsening of ecological and social situation in the region affected negatively immunological indices in the young population. This necessitates urgent measures to control spreading tuberculosis in the Far East of Russia.