PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS - HOW TO DECREASE THE DELAY IN TREATMENT

Symptoms of tuberculosis are most often not evocative; what is suggest ive of tuberculosis is the existence of risk factors for the disease a nd chronic symptoms. Patients consult their physician with variable de lays that depend on factors that are not well identified yet; physicia ns evoke the diagnosis more likely if they are familiarized with the d isease, what will probably become less frequent in areas of low preval ence for tuberculosis. The key point is the thoracic radiography that is very often very suggestive and leads by the recourse to bacteriolog y or by convergent diagnostic elements to treatment.