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. 2017 Jun 21;7(Suppl 1):S3–S9. doi: 10.5588/pha.16.0093

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Numbers of patients diagnosed and reported with TB each month, stratified by type and category of disease, before, during and after the Ebola outbreak in Bombali District, Sierra Leone, 2013–2016. A) All registered TB cases. B) Types of TB: smear-positive PTB; smear-negative PTB; EPTB. Pulmonary TB with sputum smears not performed are not shown in the Figure. Trend lines are shown for different types of TB. C) Category of TB – new and previously treated tuberculosis. Pre-Ebola period = 1 June 2013–30 April 2014; Ebola period = 1 June 2014–30 April 2015; post-Ebola period = 1 November 2015–30 April 2016. The gap in data in the pre-Ebola period in December 2013 was due to missing data. TB = tuberculosis; EPTB = extra-pulmonary TB; SS+ve TB = sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB; SS−ve TB = sputum smear-negative pulmonary TB; PTB = pulmonary tuberculosis.