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Pulmonary tuberculosisis a chronicinfectious disease caused by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis. The most important thing that must beconsidered and done by patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is regularity in taking medication, if this is not done then the previous treatment is in vain, because the germofpulmonary tuberculosis becomes resistant, making itdifficult to treat. This study aims to determine the relationship of knowledge with adherence of pulmonarytuberculosis patients to treatment in Bangkat Binjai General Hospital in 2019. This type of quantitative research uses a correlational descriptive design. The population is all patients in Bangkat Public Hospital, thesampleofthe study used a total sampling of 30 people, how to collect data using question naires as many as 10 questions given to respondents, data processing has been collected, and data analysisis arranged in questions consisting of 10 questionsgiven a score 1 if the answeris true 0 ifwrong. The resultsofthis study indicate good knowledge as many as 20 people (66.6%), enough as many as 6 people (20%) and less knowledge as many as 4 people (13.3%), adherence in the category of adherence as many as 21 people (70%) and 9 people did not comply (30%). From the Pearson correlation test results in the Asyimcolumnsig (2-tailed) shows the probability value. The sig value is 0,000 which means that (p <0.05), then Ho is rejected and ha is accepted. There is a significant relationship between knowledge and adherence of pulmonary TB patients with treatment. The better the patient's knowledge of the disease, methods of transmission and treatment of pulmonary TB, the better thead herence they have, and viceversa. It is expected that health workers can collaborate to build good partnership stop rovide adequate health education for sufferers, especially related to the importance of adherence in under going treatment.

Keywords: Knowledge; Adherence; PulmonaryTuberculosis