Volume 11, Number 4—April 2005
Research
Tuberculosis Elimination in the Netherlands
Martien W. Borgdorff*†
, Marieke J van der Werf*, Petra E.W. de Haas‡, Kristin Kremer‡, and Dick van Soolingen‡
, Marieke J van der Werf*, Petra E.W. de Haas‡, Kristin Kremer‡, and Dick van Soolingen‡Table 1
Tuberculosis cases with new strains among the Dutch, 1995–2000, and their secondary cases within 2 years
| Cases with new strains | Cases with new strains being first of cluster, n (%) | Other cases in these clusters within
2 years of first case |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Non-Dutch | |||
| Year | ||||
| 1995 | 229 | 34 (15) | 52 | 17 |
| 1996 | 255 | 36 (14) | 40 | 19 |
| 1997 | 227 | 29 (13) | 32 | 8 |
| 1998 | 193 | 31 (16) | 34 | 16 |
| 1999 | 220 | 29 (13) | 31 | 10 |
| 2000 | 194 | 23 (12) | 27 | 17 |
| Age group | ||||
| <25 | 102 | 32 (31) | 43 | 16 |
| 25–34 | 154 | 41 (27) | 43 | 30 |
| 35–44 | 140 | 28 (20) | 37 | 10 |
| 45–54 | 115 | 11 (10) | 14 | 6 |
| 55–64 | 150 | 19 (13) | 22 | 9 |
| 65–74 | 219 | 22 (10) | 28 | 8 |
| >75 | 438 | 29 (7) | 29 | 8 |
| Sex | ||||
| Male | 740 | 103 (14) | 121 | 44 |
| Female | 578 | 79 (14) | 95 | 43 |
| Total | 1,318 | 182 (14) | 216 | 87 |
