The Epidemiology of Tuberculosis of the Respiratory Tract in TH Homeless in Poznań

Abstract

The Department of Health and Social Care of the Municipal Council in Poznan initiated a programme of prophylaxis against tuberculosis in the homeless. The study involves those homeless people who are registered in Poznan-based homeless shelters and temporary residential sites. Chest X-ray was performed in 403 homeless and 57 persons of staff. Abnormal picture of the chest was found in 83 person, but only in 30 lesions were suspected of tuberculous etiology. 43 persons with abnormal chest X-ray and/or with clinical symptoms were exactly examinated in Chest Clinic (with microbiological examination of sputum or bronchoscopic material). AFB were found in 7 of them, in 1-granulomatosis with necrosis was found in lung specimen and in 2 clinical and radiological diagnosis of TB was estabilished.