[Role of general somatic hospitals in replenishment of contingents of antituberculosis dispensaries].
The patients whom tuberculosis was detected at general somatic hospitals form 28% in the make-up of dispensary registry group IA. In these hospitals BC are found in those with suspected tuberculosis and even in its destructive forms (4-5.7%). Activization of explanatory work with physicians and nurses at a hospital has caused an increase in positive sputum tests for BC and favoured a 7-fold increase in their detection by bacterioscopy after Ziehl-Neelsen.