Abstract
In 1965, 3305 of patients with tuberculosis were discharged from 27 national Sanatoriums, among them 8.5% (282 patients) was bacillus productive. The Primary antituberculons drug resistance was examined on 240 of these discharged patients: 19.6% (47 patients) were resistant to one kind of antitubercle, 30.4% (73 patients) to two kinds of antitubercles and 27.9% (67 patients) to three kinds of antitubercles. These antitubercles resistant patients amount to 77.9% (187 patients) in total.
As for resistant rates of these antitubercles, 57.9% were SM resistant, 52.4% PAS resistant and 53.7% INH resistant.
These results resemble those on admitted patients but in this regard, much difference has been observed among each of sanatoriums. No bacillus productive patients are included only at one of the sanatoriums among those discharged ones.
From the results, we should emphasize the importance of isolating the patients at sanatoriums, but the above observations, on the other hand, also show difficulties in isolating of the patients.
