Abstract: Objective To investigate the situation on management and therapy for patients with tuberculosis(TB) among students Guangzhou City. Method TB cases among students registered in Guangzhou Chest Hospital from 1993 to 2002 were collected and analyzed. Results The TB cases among students were 1764, of which students from colleges, middle school and primary school were 777 831 and 156 respectively. The detected manners for the diseases were clinical consultation and healthy examination. Most of them had TB suspicious symptoms such as cough. Majorities of student cases were first treatment (1694,96.0%). The student cases from colleges and middle schools were usually diagnosed as type Ⅲ of the diseases, and those from primitive school were type I of the diseases. The management manners for treating them included DOTS in full course (38.9%), therapy in hospital (15.6%), full-course management (11.6%), self-administrative treatment(0.5%). The overall cure rate was 93.5%. Conclusion It is important that to implement different health promotion strategy for different kind of student patients with TB and provide appropriate therapy managements according to their different diseased features.

Key words: Pulmonary tuberculosis/prevention and control, Student, Guangzhou City