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C Didilescu

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[The tuberculosis endemic and its control in the city of Bucharest in 1996].

Tuberculosis is one of the main problems of public health and the population has to face it in one of the biggest crowded town in Romania, Bucharest. It is also the capital of the country. An increasing tendency has appeared in the number of cases and deaths due to tuberculosis. The overall incidence of tuberculosis has increased by 5% in 1996, attaining finally the level of 128.6/100,000. The level is exceeded only by a few towns in Romania. The increase is due almost exclusively to the new cases of disease. The program of chemotherapy is facing a more reduced rate of cure and, implicitly, a high rate of failure by treatment. The periodical prevalence of the bacilliferous patients has attained 129.0/100,000 inhabitants. The deaths by tuberculosis have been increasing for a few years; the mortality was of 13.6/100,000 inhabitants in 1995 more than double as that in 1995 (6.5/100,000).

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[The results of the chemotherapy of a patient cohort with pulmonary tuberculosis followed-up for a 3-year period].

In 1992, in the fourth district of Bucharest 184 news adult patients with pulmonary tuberculosis were registered, and they received specific chemotherapy. The initial sputum bacteriological examination was M+C+ in 63.1% of these patients, M-C+ in 21.7% and M-C- in 15.2%. After three years of surveillance the results of the treatment were evaluated. 27 patients were excluded from the initial group, because they failed to be controlled. The final results were influenced by the sex and the initial bacteriological examination of sputum: the persistent negativation of sputum was obtained in 96.2% of the women, and only in 89.5% of men; depending on the initial bacteriological sputum examination, 100% of the M-C+ cases were negated, but only 86.4% of the M+C+ group.

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[The epidemiological profile and current evolutionary trends in tuberculosis in adolescents (15-19 years old) in the capital].

In Bucharest, the increasing TB incidence in the age group of 15 to 19 years till 100.11/100000 in 1996 has to become a concerning matter. The study of 585 cases aged 15 to 19 registered in Bucharest between 1991 and 1995 (more than 2/3 of all the cases in that period) revealed the important proportion of secondary TB (67.4%), as well as the frequency of pleural involvement (25.6%). The main discovering methods remain the examination of symptomatic cases (78.6%) and epidemiological inquiry (10%). The fact that 85% of the bacteriological confirmed cases had positive sputum specimens in microscopy confirms the idea of discovering the patients in advanced stages of disease, as well as epidemiological signification. Almost 50% of the ill teen-agers belong to families with low living status. At this age group we found an important degree of recovery after chemotherapy (82% rate of healing in the first year).

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[Tobaccology].

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