Analysis on the Results of Intermittent Chemotherapy for Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Objective To investigate the outcome of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis cases and toevaluate the therapeutic effect of communicable pulmonary tuberculosis.Methods The post-one-year outcome of the smear positive pulmon ary tuherculosis from January 1997 to June 2001 was analysed.Results The smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients were treated by 6-month-term interm ittent chemotherapy.5-year cure rate is 96.9%.Smear positive rate descended to 1.1%.Conclusion It's an effective measure for control of source of infection to use directly supervisory chemotherapy.