Clinical and epidemiological characteristics and prognostic and preventive aspects of tuberculous lung lesions in COVID - 19

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) for 2019, 10 million people in the world are infected with tuberculosis, including 5.6 million men, 3.2 million women and 1.2 million children. It is estimated that 1 million children worldwide suffer from tuberculosis every year. The reduction in the incidence rate from 2015 to 2019 was 9%, and the global goal for 2030 was 80%. In this article, it was concluded that in the absence of clinical manifestations of an active form of tuberculosis infection, there is a constant state of immunoassay caused by the presence of mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens in the body, there is no "gold standard" diagnosis that allows a direct method to identify an infection in which mycobacterium tuberculosis occurs in humans, most infected individuals do not have It is believed that Lti is 10% probability of transition to active tuberculosis, 5% in the first two years of infection and 5% for the rest of a person's life. In addition, the article emphasizes that the placement of persons who, as is known from mathematical models, about 30% of the world's population are considered carriers of lti, who are at risk of developing active tuberculosis for the detection and preventive treatment of persons with lt, is very important for the elimination of the disease.