Hollo [11] | EU and EEA countries | Overall notifications | Decline of TB notifications to 79 665 TB cases in 2009 Seven countries had notification rates >20 per 100 000 |
Sandgren [12] | EU and EEA countries | Children | Paediatric TB rates dropped between 2000 and 2009 Notification rates varied considerably between countries, ranging from 0.3 to 29.6 per 100 000 in 2009 |
Ruwende [13] | London, UK | Children | Between 1999 and 2006, 1379 TB cases in children <15 years of age were notified About half of the TB cases in children were in Black-Africans, and 52% of the children were born in the UK Most (59%) children were diagnosed with pulmonary disease |
Hauer [14] | Germany | Elderly | TB patients >59 years of age had a higher proportion of genitourinary TB, low drug resistance rates, lower treatment success rates, and high mortality rates compared to younger patients |
Abubakar [15] | UK | Overall notifications | In 2009 the number of reported TB cases was at its highest since the 1970s and rates of TB exceeded those in all other Western countries Most cases occurred in people born outside the country |
Jurcev-Savicevic [16] | Croatia | Overall notifications | TB notification rates decreased significantly from 45 per 100 000 in 1996 to 26 per 100 000 in 2006 Paediatric cases represented 4.5% of all TB cases and only 16% were foreign born 90% of all TB cases had pulmonary TB and 0.7% MDR |
Andersen [17] | North Jutland, Denmark | Overall notifications | Between 2000 and 2008, 251 TB patients were identified (notification rate 5.4 per 100 000) Of these, 71% had pulmonary TB and 29% extra-pulmonary, with lymph node TB in 84% of the extra-pulmonary cases MDR-TB was infrequent with only one case observed 55% of the TB patients were tested for HIV and five were HIV-infected A successful treatment outcome was reported for 83% |
Odone [18] | Emilia Romagna, Italy | Overall notifications | Increase in the proportion of migrants with TB from 19% in 1996 to 53% in 2006 The cases not born in Italy were younger compared to those born in Italy and more frequently had risk factors for TB such as homelessness and prisoner status |
Mandal [19] | UK | Overall notifications: M. bovis | Between 2005 and 2008, 129 M. bovis were cases diagnosed, only nine were individuals born in the UK after 1960 when widespread pasteurisation of milk was introduced and, thus, could be due to transmission between humans Four cases did not have specific risk factors Of the other five, one had a history of immunosuppression and the remaining four reported occupational contact with animals The annual incidence of M. bovis disease was low and decreased during the investigation period |
Majoor [20] | The Netherlands | Overall notifications: M. bovis | Between 1993 and 2007, 231 patients were registered with M. bovis infection, 138 (60%) in native Dutch Most (n=54) foreign born patients came from Morocco M. bovis appeared as an extrapulmonary disease in 136 (59%) of the patients 17% of the patients received a treatment not compliant with international guidelines Treatment was completed by 65% of the cases |
Winqvist [21] | Sweden | Overall notifications | Approximately 10% of persons with latent TB infection will develop TB When indigenous transmission was assumed to have disappeared (after 1967) the reactivation rate of latent TB infection was only 2% |
Blondal [22] | Estonia | Overall notifications | Analysis of surveillance data and data from the Estonian Reference Laboratory of TB and Microbacteriosis showed that country wide management of TB can reverse increasing notification rates |