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Volume 25, Number 3—March 2019
Historical Review

Tuberculosis Surveillance and Control, Puerto Rico, 1898–2015

Emilio Dirlikov1Comments to Author , Dana Thomas1Comments to Author , David Yost, Betzaida Tejada-Vera, Maria Bermudez, Olga Joglar, and Terence Chorba
Author affiliations: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E. Dirlikov, D. Thomas, D. Yost, O. Joglar, T. Chorba); United States Public Health Service, Commissioned Corps, Rockville, Maryland, USA (D. Thomas, D. Yost); National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA (B. Tejada-Vera); Puerto Rico Department of Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico (M. Bermudez, O. Joglar)

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Table 2

Patient demographics, verification criteria, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis results, HIV status, receipt of directly observed therapy, and therapy completion in <1 y for reported tuberculosis case cohorts, 1993–1997 and 2011–2015*

Variable 1,272 Reported cases, 1993–1997
no. (%) patients 266 Reported cases, 2011–2015
no. (%) patients
Age, y
0–4 39 (3) 0
5–14 10 (1) 0
15–24 60 (5) 13 (5)
25–44 449 (35) 66 (25)
45–64 347 (27) 112 (42)
>65 278 (22) 73 (27)
Not available
 89 (7)
 2 (1)
Sex
M 869 (68) 188 (71)
F
 403 (32)
 78 (29)
Origin of birth
United States 1,210 (95) 222 (83)
Other than United States 58 (5) 44 (17)
Not available
 4 (<1)
 0 (0)
Verification criteria
Positive culture 1,090 (86) 225 (85)
Clinical case definition 82 (6) 14 (5)
Provider diagnosis 70 (6) 26 (10)
Positive smear/tissue 30 (2) 0 ()
Not available
 0 ()
 1 (<1)
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Yes 24 (2) 6 (2)
No 753 (59) 210 (79)
Not applicable or available
 495 (39)
 50 (19)
HIV status
Positive 386 (30) 46 (17)
Negative 292 (23) 199 (75)
Not reported
 594 (47)
 21 (8)
Directly observed therapy
Direct only 253 (20) 134 (50)
Self only 807 (63) 63 (24)
Both 25 (2) 5 (2)
Not applicable or available
 187 (15)
 64 (24)
Therapy completed in <1 y
Yes 604 (47) 140 (53)
No 113 (9) 6 (2)
Not applicable or not available 555 (44) 120 (45)

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1These authors were co–principal investigators.

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