Gender and age features of «familial» tuberculosis in the Sumy region

Abstract

А «typical» example of tuberculosis sources was males aged 42.5 ± 2.4 years. It can be explained by a tendency to smoke and abuse alcohol, which provokes antisocial behavior and low adherence to treatment. The latter contributed to the infection in the vast majority of women and children. Thus, «reforming medicine» by eliminating and reducing the network of anti-tuberculosis hospitals and dispensaries, where such patients would be treated, at least until the cessation of bacterial excretion, and the network of anti-tuberculosis children’s sanatoriums, where children could recover and be isolated from sick adults. , premature.