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Volume 12, Number 9—September 2006
Research

Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis by Nationality, the Netherlands, 1993–2001

Lowieke A.M. te Beek*†, Marieke J. van der Werf*Comments to Author , Clemens Richter‡, and Martien W. Borgdorff*§
Author affiliations: *KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, the Netherlands; †Municipal Health Service Kop van Noord-Holland, Schagen, the Netherlands; .; ‡Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, the Netherlands; §Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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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.

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