Aiming to comprehend the frequency of positive cases of tuberculosis in the city of Tobias Barreto, state of Sergipe, between 2010-2015, it was made a data collection of the Sistema de Informação de Agravos e Notificação (SINAN), and in order to analyze the knowledge of professionals that work with tuberculosis, it was applied a questionnaire, as effect, we obtained satisfactory results, realizing that there was a variation of 10 and 12 cases per year, and in 2014 there was an increase of cases. Regarding the questionnaire, the professionals had difficulty to identify the initial diagnosis, however, it is concluded that the increase is due to the synergistic relation of the tuberculosis with the human immunodeficiency virusand on the difficulty of early diagnosis are proposed training courses for tuberculosis.
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