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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 1

General characteristics of pulmonary and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients in the Netherlands, 1993–2001

Extrapulmonary TB (%) Pulmonary TB (%) Total (%) p value*
Total 5,042 (38.0) 8,216 (62.0) 13,258 (100)
Sex <0.01
Male 2,610 (33.1) 5,285 (66.9) 7,895 (100)
Female 2,432 (45.3) 2,931 (54.7) 5,363 (100)
Age groups, y <0.01
<14 255 (31.4) 556 (68.6) 811 (100)
15–24 877 (36.1) 1,553 (63.9) 2,430 (100)
25–34 1,389 (39.3) 2,149 (60.7) 3,538 (100)
35–44 810 (38.0) 1,321 (62.0) 2,131 (100)
45–64 893 (40.9) 1,293 (59.1) 2,186 (100)
>65 818 (37.8) 1,344 (62.2) 2,162 (100)
HIV infection† <0.01
Yes 173 (34.7) 325 (65.3) 498 (100)
Unknown 4,869 (38.2) 7,891 (61.8) 12,760 (100)
Nationality <0.01
Dutch 1,882 (33.1) 3,800 (66.9) 5,682 (100)
European, central and eastern 70 (15.1) 395 (84.9) 465 (100)
Turkish 212 (32.1) 449 (67.9) 661 (100)
Moroccan 509 (40.2) 758 (59.8) 1,267 (100)
Somali 997 (58.9) 695 (41.1) 1,692 (100)
African (other) 456 (36.6) 789 (63.4) 1,245 (100)
Asian 705 (44.1) 895 (55.9) 1,600 (100)
Other 211 (32.7) 435 (67.3) 646 (100)
Culture determination <0.01
Positive 3,400 (36.7) 5,872 (63.3) 9,275 (100)
Negative 188 (51.8) 175 (48.2) 363 (100)
Unknown or not performed 1,454 (40.2) 2,166 (59.8) 3,620 (100)

*p value (2-sided) for proportions by Pearson χ2
†HIV testing is not a standard procedure for TB patients in the Netherlands. HIV infection is recorded in the National Tuberculosis Register as one of the response options of the item "impaired immunity." Considered as HIV infected were those cases with a record of impaired immunity due to HIV infection; all others were classified as HIV status unknown.

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