Table 1.

Number of new culture positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients by patient characteristics and treatment outcome, Norway, 1996–2002

	Cured	Completed treatment	Failure*	Defaulted treatment	Died	Transferred Out†	Total
Sex
Women	144	90	2	7	17	11	271
Men	179	131	3	15	41	15	384
Birthplace
Norway	119	84	1	5	49	0	258
Abroad	204	137	4	17	9	26	397
Age group (yrs)
0–14	6	19	0	1	0	0	26
15–39	170	105	3	13	4	14	309
40–64	59	45	2	4	11	10	131
65+	88	52	0	4	43	2	189
INH-resistance‡
No	295	210	0	15	53	22	595
Yes	21	10	5	7	2	4	49
Mode of detection# (due to symptoms)
Yes	221	154	3	16	47	12	453
No	100	67	2	6	11	13	199
Treatment periods
1996–1997	67	48	0	3	19	2	139
1998–1999	83	58	1	7	20	3	172
2000–2002	173	115	4	12	19	21	344

*All patients are MDR-TB patients

^†All patients have left the country

^‡Information for INH susceptibility was available for 98.3% of the patients

^#Information for mode of detection was available for 99.5% of the patients