Volume 13, Number 9—September 2007
Dispatch
Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents, Taiwan, 1996–2003
Pei-Chun Chan*†, Li-Min Huang*, Yi-Chun Wu†, Hsiang-Lin Yang†, I-Shou Chang‡, Chun-Yi Lu*, Ping-Ing Lee*, Chin-Yun Lee*, and Luan-Yin Chang*
Table
Distribution of different sites of extrapulmonary tuberculosis among 4 age groups, Taiwan, 1996–2003
| Site | Age group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| <4 y (n = 242), no. (%) | 5–9 y (n = 96), no. (%) | 10–14 y (n = 105), no. (%) | 15–19 y (n = 242) no. (%) | |
| Meninges | 30 (12) | 6 (6) | 6 (6) | 25 (10) |
| Lymph nodes | 56 (24) | 51 (54) | 44 (41) | 127 (53) |
| Bone and joint | 92 (39) | 11(11) | 12 (11) | 10 (4) |
| Genitourinary tract | 1 (<1) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 9 (4) |
| Skin and eye | 15 (6) | 3 (3) | 6 (6) | 10 (4) |
| Gastrointestinal tract | 5 (2) | 3 (3) | 8 (8) | 11 (5) |
| Others | 42 (17) | 21 (22) | 28 (27) | 49 (20) |
