Chest X-ray, which passes all immigrants arriving in the UK for the detection of tuberculosis, often turns out to be ineffective, British doctors concluded, according to an Internet publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35 Pannochka. Net According to them, X-rays reveal only the so-called active infection, that is, the disease in a fairly neglected stage, when all the symptoms of the disease are present.

To detect the same tuberculosis at an early stage will help special blood tests, experts from Imperial College London believe, who examined more than 1000 immigrants.

Detection of the disease at an early stage is especially important in the case of tuberculosis, because the disease is contagious, doctors recall..

The UK government says that the initiative of the researchers fully meets the requirement of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which has long called for the introduction of new, more effective ways of diagnosing various diseases.

Carriers and Patients.

Over the past decades, the number of TB cases in the UK has increased dramatically. Mostly, doctors say, foreigners from developing countries with low levels of medicine and health care are ill.

Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that affects the lungs of a person.

A person can be a carrier of infection for several years without getting sick. But, according to experts, anything can be the impetus for the development of the disease - from a simple climate change to a mild cold.

"By identifying the carriers of infection through the blood tests we offer, we will not only help the person avoid developing the disease in severe form, but also protect others around him, as tuberculosis is contagious," says Professor Ajit Lalwani of Imperial College London.

From the point of view of the country's budget, the proposal of scientists to introduce additional ways of examining immigrants will help the British health system save a lot of money on the treatment of advanced forms of tuberculosis.

In March of this year, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence of Great Britain made changes in the procedure for diagnosing tuberculosis among visitors. Now experts from Imperial College London offer how to do it.

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