Abstract

PEREZ PEREZ, Isabel M et al. Active screening in patients with breathing symptoms in the Municipal Polyclinic. MEDISAN [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional investigation was carried out which consisted of an active screening in 710 patients with breathing symptoms, belonging to the "Municipal" health area of Santiago de Cuba during the year 2006. A multidisciplinary team of the Municipal Unit of Hygiene and Epidemiology and of the health area was constituted, which worked in 210 houses selected because they had a history of tuberculosis. The main risk factors identified to develop the disease were: the smoking habit, more than 65 years old and alcoholism, besides the unfavorable socioeconomic conditions and overcrowding. Seventy people (9,8%) had breathing symptoms of more than 14 days and one was diagnosed with the disorder. The results of the health area in the specialized surveillance, previous to the investigation, were poor. Of the screened patients, 24% were infected by Micobacterium tuberculosis, according to the results of the tuberculin test, and of them, 9% were hyperergic.

Keywords : tuberculosis; Micobacterium tuberculosis; breathing symptoms; tuberculin test; primary health care.

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