Table 2. Number and proportion of notified TB cases with DST results, confirmed MDR-TB and RR-TB cases and cases confirmed by Xpert, by new and previously treated TB cases and selected country,* WHO Western Pacific Region, 2013.
| Countries and areas | Notified cases with DST results | MDR-TB and RR-TB* among cases with DST results |
Cases confirmed by Xpert among MDR-TB and RR-TB† | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | Prev | Total | New | Prev | Total | New | Prev | Total | ||||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Australia | 570 | 82 | 25 | 76 | 604 | 83 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Brunei Darussalam | 146 | 92 | 6 | 100 | 152 | 93 | 1 | <1 | 0 | – | 1 | <1 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Cambodia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| China | 20 080 | 3 | 7153 | 20 | 27 233 | 3 | 1612 | 8 | 2571 | 36 | 4183 | 15 | 244 | 15 | 246 | 10 | 490 | 12 |
| Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | 1919 | 55 | 198 | 56 | 2117 | 55 | 28 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 35 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Macao Special Administrative Region | 244 | 70 | 26 | 81 | 305 | 80 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Cook Islands | 1 | 100 | 0 | – | 1 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Japan | 7266 | 49 | 435 | 43 | 7 | 42 | <1 | 22 | 5 | 64 | <1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | |||||
| Malaysia | 2702 | 14 | 181 | 9 | 11 110 | 52 | 80 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 185 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Marshall Islands | 72 | 61 | 3 | 43 | 75 | 60 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Mongolia | 289 | 12 | 531 | 85 | 838 | 28 | 24 | 22 | 177 | 33 | 242 | 29 | 15 | 23 | 38 | 21 | 53 | 22 |
| New Zealand | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Palau | 7 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – | |||||
| Papua New Guinea | – | – | – | – | 93 | <1 | – | – | – | – | 46 | 49 | – | – | – | – | 33 | 72 |
| Philippines | 25 | <1 | 2631 | 14 | 2656 | 1 | 10 | 40 | 1349 | 51 | 1359 | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Republic of Korea | 1249 | 4 | 726 | 9 | 1975 | 5 | 466 | 37 | 518 | 71 | 984 | 50 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Singapore | 1070 | 61 | 85 | 66 | 1155 | 62 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 18 | 2 | 0 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
| Viet Nam | 353 | <1 | 3955 | 45 | 4531 | 5 | 40 | 11 | 997 | 25 | 1041 | 23 | 37 | 92 | 801 | 80 | 841 | 81 |
| Western Pacific Region | 36 103 | 3 | 16 057 | 20 | 60 765 | 5 | 2379 | 7 | 5664 | 35 | 8195 | 13 | 296 | 12 | 1085 | 19 | 1417 | 17 |
DST, drug susceptibility testing; MDR-TB, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis; Prev, previously treated tuberculosis; RR-TB, rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis.
* Countries that reported at least one MDR-TB case in 2013.
† Rifampicin-resistant only cases are included whether confirmed by DST or Xpert.