[Tuberculosis epidemiology in the Cervo (Lugo) health area]

From 1994 to 1995, 80 cases which belonged to 78 patients were diagnosed. The rate was 56.6 cases/100,000 inhabitants/year in 1994 and 51.2 in 1995. The ratio male/female was 2:1 for the two years. Diagnose in hospital was 73% and in health centre 27%. Acid-fast stain and/or positive culture of M. Tuberculosis (MT) and another mycobacteria were obtained in 82.5% cases. The MT resistances were about 3.6. It was usually placed in lungs in 69.2%. The 5.1% patients were positive for HIV. Only one patient died (1.8%) who suffered from a miliary form. The favorite administered treatment (78.2%) was six months with three drugs. The adenosine deaminase (ADA) was discriminate for 80% of pleuritis. The average stay was 17.6 days. Important differences in each town councils rates.