[Pathomorphosis of tuberculosis in children of early and preschool age (autopsy data)].

A total of 339 protocols of autopsies of babies infants, and pre-school children within 50 year (1947-1996) are analyzed. As compared with 1947-1956, in the past 3 decades the autopsies showed 14.6-, 35.7-, and 79.7-fold reductions in babies, infants, and preschool children, respectively. However, the past 5 years is marked by a reversal of more severe tuberculosis in children under 3 years, which necessitates to intensify social, prophylactic, and therapeutical antituberculosis measures among children.