LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION: PLACE IN THE SPECTRUM OF TUBERCULOSIS, PROBLEMS

The literature review briefly describes the main aspects of latent tuberculosis infection and the place of tuberculosis infection among various variants of the course of tuberculosis. Latent tuberculosis infection is one of the main problems of phthisiology. Today we have made significant progress in understanding the essence of this important «component» of tuberculosis, and, therefore, the time is not far when the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of LTBI will become quite accessible in widespread practice