<![CDATA[Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The incidence of TB in Indonesia (WHO 2018) is the third highest. Meanwhile in Bali, TB cases are increasing by 5% every year. This research is a non-experimental descriptive observational study with a cross sectional design. There are 73 medical record samples (2019-2020) in this study. The results showed that the majority of TB patients were new cases, were of productive age with male gender. There are 34% of patients are active smokers and 13.7% of patients have a family history of tuberculosis infection. There are about 6 patients with anemia and 5 other patients have a history of diabetes. The OAT treatment period, the majority of patients complained of side effects of nausea (64.4%), and dizziness (47.9%) with a success rate of around 78.1%. This research still requires further analysis to find out the relationship between the variables studied.]]>
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