Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research
Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis by Nationality, the Netherlands, 1993–2001
Table 2
Distribution of total tuberculosis (TB) and EPTB by nationality and culture determination in the Netherlands, 1993–2001*†
Total TB‡ (%) | Total EPTB (%) | Lymphatic (%) | Pleural (%) | Bones and joints (%) | Miliary (%) | Genitourinary (%) | Peritoneal (%) | Meninges and CNS (%) | Other EPTB (%) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | 13,258 (100) | 5,042 (38.0) | 1,963 (14.8) | 1,036 (7.8) | 465 (3.5) | 246 (1.9) | 226 (1.7) | 178 (1.3) | 111 (0.8) | 438 (3.3) | |
Nationality | |||||||||||
Dutch | 5,682 (100) | 1,882 (33.1) | 441 (3.3) | 592 (4.5) | 188 (1.4) | 136 (1.0) | 147 (1.1) | 34 (0.3) | 52 (0.4) | 133 (1.0) | |
European (central and eastern) | 465 (100) | 70 (15.1) | 23 (4.9) | 26 (5.6) | 1 (0.2) | 7 (1.5) | 3 (0.6) | 1 (0.2) | 0 | 4 (0.9) | |
Turkish | 661 (100) | 212 (32.1) | 88 (13.3) | 45 (6.8) | 7 (1.1) | 4 (0.6) | 12 (1.8) | 7 (1.1) | 3 (0.5) | 24 (3.6) | |
Moroccan | 1,267 (100) | 509 (40.2) | 233 (18.4) | 87 (6.9) | 29 (2.3) | 14 (1.1) | 24 (1.9) | 29 (2.3) | 12 (0.9) | 46 (3.6) | |
Somali | 1,692 (100) | 997 (58.9) | 497 (29.4) | 84 (5.0) | 107 (6.3) | 22 (1.3) | 11 (0.7) | 58 (3.4) | 20 (1.2) | 110 (6.5) | |
African (other) | 1,245 (100) | 456 (36.6) | 189 (15.2) | 83 (6.7) | 43 (3.5) | 32 (2.6) | 12 (1.0) | 12 (1.0) | 5 (0.4) | 49 (3.9) | |
Asian | 1,600 (100) | 705 (44.1) | 407 (25.4) | 75 (4.7) | 64 (4.0) | 19 (1.2) | 9 (0.6) | 27 (1.7) | 16 (1.0) | 57 (3.6) | |
Other | 646 (100) | 211 (32.7) | 85 (13.2) | 44 (6.8) | 26 (4.0) | 12 (1.9) | 8 (1.2) | 10 (1.5) | 3 (0.5) | 15 (2.3) | |
Culture determination | |||||||||||
Positive | 9,275 (100) | 3,400 (36.7) | 1,402 (15.1) | 683 (7.4) | 362 (3.9) | 185 (2.0) | 167 (1.8) | 141 (1.5) | 74 (0.8) | 288 (3.1) | |
Negative | 363 (100) | 188 (51.8) | 80 (22.0) | 59 (16.3) | 13 (3.6) | 2 (0.6) | 5 (1.4) | 3 (0.8) | 6 (1.7) | 16 (4.4) | |
Unknown or not performed | 3,620 (100) | 1,454 (40.2) | 481 (13.3) | 294 (8.1) | 90 (2.5) | 59 (1.6) | 54 (1.5) | 34 (0.9) | 31 (0.9) | 134 (3.7) |
*EPTB, extrapulmonary TB; CNS, central nervous system.
†The denominator for percentages is the total TB cases in the row.
‡Total TB includes both PTB and EPTB.