Annotatsiya. Na protyazhenii dlitel'nogo istoricheskogo perioda infektsionnye zabolevaniya yavlyalis' glavnym faktorom estestvennogo otbora u cheloveka. Primerom mozhet sluzhit' sleduyushchiy fakt. V kontse XIX veka ezhegodnaya smertnost' ot tuberkuleza v odnoy iz indeyskiy rezervatsiy byla svyshe 10% populyatsii. Cherez 40 let okolo poloviny indeyskikh semey umerlo ot tuberkuleza, posle chego uroven' smertnosti upal do 0,2%. Tuberkulez sklonen k samoizlecheniyu i sushchestvuet vrozhdennaya rezistentnost' cheloveka k tuberkulezu - dva fakta, ob"yasnyayushchikh, pochemu chelovechestvo ne vymerlo ot etogo zabolevaniya. Po dannym VOZ, primerno 1/3 zhiteley planety (okolo 2 milliardov chelovek) infitsirovano M.Tuberculosis. Odnako zabolevanie razvivaetsya ne bolee chem u 10% lyudey, vstretivshikh vozbuditelya; u ostal'nykh formiruetsya tak nazyvaemaya latentnaya tuberkuleznaya infektsiya, proyavlyayushchayasya tol'ko polozhitel'noy reaktsiey na vvedenie tuberkulina [Davies P.D. et al, 2001; Rook J.A.W. et al, 2001]. Monografiya posvyashchena vazhnoy probleme - svoevremennomu raspoznavaniyu tuberkuleza mochepolovoy sistemy. Krasochnoe, bogato illyustrirovannoe izdanie budet polezno vracham urologam, ginekologam, ftiziatram, patomorfologam, khirurgam.