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Volume 22, Number 3—March 2016
Dispatch

Patient Diagnostic Rate as Indicator of Tuberculosis Case Detection, South Africa

Mareli M. ClaassensComments to Author , Cari van Schalkwyk, Rory Dunbar, Helen Ayles, and Nulda Beyers
Author affiliations: Desmond Tutu TB Centre and Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa (M.M. Claassens, R. Dunbar, N. Beyers); The South African Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis at Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa (C. van Schalkwyk); London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK (H. Ayles); Zambart, Lusaka, Zambia (H. Ayles)

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Table 1

Tuberculosis notification rates per ZAMSTAR community in the Western Cape of South Africa, stratified by HIV status, 2010*

Community
 Total†
 Population, no. ‡
Notifications, no. (%)§
Notification rate¶
HIV–
 HIV+
 HIV–
 HIV+
 Missing HIV data
 HIV–
 HIV+
A 22,830 19,791 3,039 191 251 2 (0.5) 9.7 82.6
B 16,824 14,699 2,125 45 176 43 (16.3) 3.1 82.8
C 32,342 26,842 5,500 156 303 12 (2.6) 5.8 55.1
D 20,418 16,910 3,508 63 127 12 (4.9) 3.7 36.2
E 91,380 77,086 14,294 202 410 33 (5.1) 2.6 28.7
F 39,357 33,925 5,432 189 319 8 (1.6) 5.6 58.7
G 34,765 27,812 6,953 276 440 28 (3.8) 9.9 63.3
H
 24,030
 19,804
 4,226
141
 332
 12 (2.5)
7.1
 78.6
Total 281,946 236,869 45,077 1,263 2,358 150 (4.0) 5.3 52.3

*ZAMSTAR, Zambian South African Tuberculosis and AIDS Reduction trial; HIV–, HIV-negative; HIV+, HIV positive.
†Split into HIV-positive and HIV-negative according to ZAMSTAR proportions.
‡Total adult (>18 years of age) population, data from 2011 census.
§Data from 2010 electronic tuberculosis register.
¶Notification rate expressed per 1,000 persons per year.

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