[The state-of-the-art of Russia's Laboratory Tuberculosis Diagnosis Service: basic problems and ways of their...

The authors have revealed the acutest problems of laboratory tuberculosis diagnosis service in the Russian Federation. They have made their conclusion on this issue and developed the following recommendations: to continue the reorganization of Russia's laboratory tuberculosis diagnosis service; to reconstruct and repair laboratories; to provide them with up-to-date equipment; to make a full-scale training of laboratory workers; to standardize the procedures of microbiological tests for tuberculosis; to organize bacteriological tuberculosis service monitoring in Russia, including monitoring of tuberculosis-controlling facilities; to develop and officially approve a number of normative documents (current standards for the time spent on working operations and criteria for estimating the load on the personnel performing the procedures of a study, new staff lists for laboratories, the level and structure of salaries in the laboratory's personnel).