[Development of tuberculosis in children and adolescents in extreme circumstances]

The screening for tuberculosis among children and adolescents living in seismically dangerous regions, from families of the refugees and migrants has elicited a dramatic deterioration of tuberculosis-related epidemiological situation not only in the disaster regions, but in Armenia on the whole. The number of children and adolescents with active pulmonary and CNS tuberculosis has been growing. The disease is characterized by frequently occurring severe, disseminated and generalized forms with distruction and bacterial discharge. More cases have been detected of tuberculous meningitis, caseous pneumonia with manifest tuberculous intoxication, family tuberculosis.