[Epidemiologic aspects of tuberculosis in Yaounde (Republic of Cameroon)]

A retrospective investigation was carried out in March 1984 on files of 447 tubercular patients traced in 1982 in the Unit of Pneumophthisiology of the Jamot Hospital in Yaounde. It demonstrates that: 80% of the patients have a pulmonary localization, 95% of the pulmonary tuberculosis are diagnosed by bacilloscopy often after a long latency, 60% of two-sided forms and 64% of forms with excavation, by radiological examination, 65% of the recorded patients live outside Yaounde, a one year standard treatment follow-up leads to 50% cures, 50% of the patients do not come back before six months and 50% after six months. The epidemiological findings done from this investigation lead to suggest adaptations of the fight-programme relevant to the bacilloscopic tracing, the curative protocols and the BCG vaccination.