Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016
Dispatch
Tuberculosis, Fiji, 2002–2013
Lorenzo Pezzoli
, Shakti Gounder, Talatoka Tamani, Mary Raori Daulako, Frank Underwood, Sakiusa Mainawalala, Vasiti Nawadra-Taylor, Eric Rafai, and Laura Gillini
, Shakti Gounder, Talatoka Tamani, Mary Raori Daulako, Frank Underwood, Sakiusa Mainawalala, Vasiti Nawadra-Taylor, Eric Rafai, and Laura Gillini
Table 1
New tuberculosis cases, by year and type, Fiji, 2002–2012*
| Year | No. (%) |
Total no., N = 1,890 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPTB | PTB– | PTB+ | ||
| 2002 | 38 (25.3) | 38 (25.3) | 74 (49.3) | 150 |
| 2003 | 53 (29.6) | 48 (26.8) | 78 (43.6) | 179 |
| 2004 | 31 (23.7) | 38 (29.0) | 62 (47.3) | 131 |
| 2005 | 40 (30.3) | 29 (22.0) | 63 (47.7) | 132 |
| 2006 | 18 (15.9) | 22 (19.5) | 73 (64.6) | 113 |
| 2007 | 34 (36.6) | 7 (7.5) | 52 (55.9) | 93 |
| 2008 | 19 (18.6) | 5 (4.9) | 78 (76.5) | 102 |
| 2009 | 38 (26.8) | 21 (14.8) | 83 (58.5) | 142 |
| 2010 | 45 (25.1) | 45 (25.1) | 89 (49.7) | 179 |
| 2011 | 44 (20.7) | 62 (29.1) | 107 (50.2) | 213 |
| 2012 | 40 (19.5) | 54 (26.3) | 111 (54.1) | 205 |
| 2013 | 71 (28.3) | 74 (29.5) | 106 (42.2) | 251 |
*EPTB, extrapulmonary tuberculosis; PTB, pulmonary tuberculosis; –, smear negative; +, smear positive.
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