Title: THE CLINICAL CHARACTERISTIC AND OUTCOMES OF RELAPSES WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
Abstract: The causes of pulmonary tuberculosis recurrences and efficacy of their treatment havr been analyzed for 249 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. The recurrences arise most often secondary to associated diseases, chronical alcoholism, in subjects who previously have had focal pulmonary tuberculosis. Treatment of the recurrences is longer than that of the primary foci, does not prevent residual changes, is not curative in all the cases.