[Current socioepidemiologic and clinico-pathogenetic aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis in the Republic of Moldova].

Among the first detected patients, there was a reduction in the proportion of subjects with posttuberculous changes in the lung decreases in the presence of the deteriorating epidemiological situation. Risk factors of social diseases are of much importance in the development of tuberculosis at present. Infiltrative processes with lung tissue destruction and bronchogenic dissemination are essential in the clinical pattern of the disease. Exogenous infection and superinfection play an important role in the pathogenesis of tuberculosis. For most patients with tuberculosis without residual changes in the lung, the optimum hospital stay is 6 months and the total duration of a basic treatment regimen is 1-1.5 year. To reduce the time of treatment in patients with tuberculosis developed in the presence of residual changes in the lung is now inadvisable.