Table 1.

Characteristics of TB patients reported in North Carolina, 1993–2003 (N = 5311)

Characteristic	n	%	Characteristic	n	%
Age, years			Resident of long-term care facility at TB diagnosis
0–4	111	2.1	Yes	250	4.7
5–14	121	2.3	No	5061	95.3
15–24	319	6.0	Homeless within past year
25–44	1614	30.4	Yes	377	7.1
45–64	1522	28.7	No	4934	92.9
≥65	1624	30.6
			Injection drug use within past year
Sex			Yes	96	1.8
Male	3477	65.5	No	4420	83.2
Female	1834	34.5	Unknown	795	15.0
Race			Non-injection drug use within past year
Non-Hispanic White	1357	25.6	Yes	483	9.1
Non-Hispanic Black	3043	57.3	No	4047	76.2
Asian/Pacific Islander	305	5.7	Unknown	781	14.7
American Indian/Alaskan Native	44	0.8
Hispanic	559	10.5	Excess alcohol use within past year
Unknown	3	0.1	Yes	1147	21.6
			NO	3411	64.2
Country of origin			Unknown	753	14.2
US-born	4348	81.9
Foreign-born	963	18.1	Initial organism drug susceptibility
			Resistant to INH alone	90	1.7
Previous diagnosis of TB			Resistant to INH and to ≥ 1 drug other   than RMP
Yes	296	5.6		76	1.4
No	5015	94.4	Resistant to RMP and INH	21	0.4
Site of current TB			Resistant to RMP alone	10	0.2
Pulmonary	3982	75.0	No resistance to INH or RMP documented	5114	96.3
Pulmonary and extra-pulmonary	243	4.6	Manner in which TB treatment was provided
Extra-pulmonary alone			All DOT	2939	55.3
Lymphatic	278	5.2	Combination of DOT and SAT	1162	21.9
Miliary	119	2.2	ALL SAT	1019	19.2
Pleural	286	5.4	Unknown	191	3.6
Bone/joint	126	2.4
Other	277	5.2	TB treatment provider
			Health department only	1856	35.0
HIV status			Health department and private/other provider	2660	50.1
Positive	549	10.3	Private/other provider only	690	13.0
Negative	2650	49.9	Unknown	105	2.0
Unknown	2109	39.7
Resident of correctional facility at TB diagno
Yes	106	2.0
No	5205	98.0

TB = tuberculosis; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; INH = isoniazid; RMP = rifampin; DOT = directly observed therapy; SAT = self-administered therapy.