[ALGORITHM FOR EXAMINATION OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH HYPERERGIC TUBERCULIN SUSCEPTIBILITY]

To improve the diagnosis of minor forms of intrathoracic tuberculosis in patients with hyperergic tuberculin susceptibility, clinical, laboratory, and radiological studies (chest computed tomography) were conducted in 147 children and adolescents. The studies revealed local tuberculosis in 42.2% of cases, Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection with hyperergic tuberculin susceptibility in 49.6%, and a paraallergic reaction to tuberculin in 8.2%. The findings have permitted an algorithm to be developed for the examination of patients with hyperergic reactions, which allows for a differential approach to examining children and adolescents with hyperergic tuberculin susceptibility and contributes to the earlier diagnosis of minor forms of intrathoracic tuberculosis and the clearer formation of dispensary registration groups (VI-B, 0 groups) and helps to identify patients with a paraallergic reaction to tuberculin among the children with allergic pathology.