Volume 17, Number 3—March 2011
Research
Epidemiology of Mycobacterium bovis Disease in Humans, the Netherlands, 1993–2007
Christof J. Majoor
, Cecile Magis-Escurra, Jakko van Ingen, Martin J. Boeree, and Dick van Soolingen
, Cecile Magis-Escurra, Jakko van Ingen, Martin J. Boeree, and Dick van SoolingenTable 2
Treatment results according to age, sex, and localization of Mycobacterium bovis disease in Dutch and foreign-born case-patients, as recorded in the National Tuberculosis Registry, the Netherlands, 1993–2007*
| Variable | No. (%) Dutch patients, n = 138 |
No. (%) foreign-born patients, n = 93 |
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment completed | Cause of death |
Other† | Treatment completed | Cause of death |
Other† | ||||
| TB-related | Non–TB-related | TB-related | Non–TB-related | ||||||
| Total |
85 (61.6) |
10 (7.2) |
28 (20.3) |
15 (10.9) |
66 (71.0) |
2 (2.1) |
6 (6.5) |
19 (20.4) |
|
| Age, y | |||||||||
| 0–60 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 59 | 2 | 3 | 16 | |
| >60 |
60 |
9 |
25 |
9 |
7 |
0 |
3 |
3 |
|
| Sex | |||||||||
| M | 33 | 3 | 18 | 2 | 35 | 0 | 3 | 11 | |
| F |
52 |
7 |
10 |
13 |
31 |
2 |
3 |
8 |
|
| Localization | |||||||||
| Pulmonary | 26 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 5 | |
| Extrapulmonary | 52 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 44 | 0 | 3 | 11 | |
| Pulmonary and extrapulmonary | 7 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
*TB, tuberculosis.
†Treatment not completed or treatment continued elsewhere.
