Table 2.
Reported bTB prevalence for included studies
| Authors | Study location | Dx. Test | Sample size | Reported prevalence‡ (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallick, Aggarwal, and Dua (1942) | Punjab | DIT | 1217 | 23.2 |
| Iyer (1944) | Uttar Pradesh | PM Exam | 250 | 2.4 |
| Iyer (1944) | Maharashtra | PM Exam | 120 | 13.3 |
| Iyer (1944) | West Bengal | PM Exam | 130 | 2.3 |
| Taneja (1955) | Haryana | DIT | 102 | 26.5 |
| Dhanda and Lall (1959) | Gujarat | SIT | 25142 | 16.7 |
| Lall, Singh, and Sen Gupta (1969) | Uttarakhand | DIT | 128 | 0.0 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Punjab | DIT | 111 | 13.5 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Haryana | DIT | 1567 | 2.7 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Bihar | DIT | 169 | 4.7 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Uttar Pradesh | DIT | 1418 | 4.9 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Rajasthan | DIT | 727 | 2.6 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Telangana | DIT | 426 | 1.9 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Maharashtra | DIT | 194 | 1.0 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | West Bengal | DIT | 65 | 0.0 |
| Lall et al. (1969) | Himachal Pradesh | DIT | 177 | 0.6 |
| Purohit and Mehrotra (1969) | Rajasthan | SICT | 1010 | 1.8 |
| Rawat and Kataria (1971) | Madhya Pradesh | DIT | 1830 | 2.4 |
| Nagaraja, Krishnaswamy, Adinarayanaiah, Murthy, and Nanjiah (1973) | Karnataka | DIT | 3250 | 5.2 |
| Joshi, Sharma, Dhillon, and Sodhi (1976) | Punjab | DIT | 1081 | 10.5 |
| Bali and Khanna (1979) | Haryana | SIT | 663 | 1.4 |
| Bali and Khanna (1979) | Haryana | SIT | 624 | 4.6 |
| Paily, Georgekutty, and Venugopal (1979) | Kerala | SIT | 608 | 0.8 |
| Appuswamy, Batish, Parkash, and Ranganathan (1980) | Haryana | Culture | 308 | 4.6 |
| Kulshreshtha, Jagjit, and Chandiramani (1980) | Haryana | SIT | 13089 | 2.5 |
| Bali and Singh (1980) | Haryana | SIT | 628 | 2.4 |
| Bala and Sidhu (1981) | West Bengal | NR | 475 | 41.5 |
| Bala and Sidhu (1981) | Haryana | NR | 712 | 1.1 |
| Bala and Sidhu (1981) | Uttar Pradesh | NR | 732 | 13.1 |
| Murti and Hazarika (1982) | Meghalaya | SICT | 302 | 8.9 |
| Sharma et al. (1985) | Uttar Pradesh | PM, ZN staining | 1268 | 13.3 |
| Bapat and Bangi (1985) | Maharashtra | SICT | 2043 | 1.2 |
| Maity, Deb and Pramanik (1992) | West Bengal | PM, ZN staining | 1571 | 0.4 |
| Sharma, Kwatra, Joshi, and Saharma (1994) | Punjab | SIT | 2623 | 4.0 |
| Rakesh Sisodia, Shuykla and Sisodia (1995) | Madhya Pradesh | SIT | 465 | 9.0 |
| Rajaram, Rao and Manickam (1996) | Tamil Nadu | SIT | 1339 | 14.6 |
| Mishra, Panda, and Panda (1997) | Orissa | SIT | 670 | 3.4 |
| Dev, Purohit, and Joshi (1998) | Rajasthan | SICT | 75 | 10.7 |
| Kumar, Sharma, Iyer, and Prasad (1998) | Uttar Pradesh | PM, ZN staining | 1435 | 9.8 |
| Aswathanarayana et al. (1998) | Karnataka | SIT | 1189 | 25.7 |
| Kumar and Parihar (1998) | Uttar Pradesh | PM Exam | 2028 | 0.8 |
| Chowdhury, Sarkar, Pal, Roy, and Chakraborty (2001) | West Bengal | PM, ZN staining | 1050 | 3.9 |
| Mukhopadhyay, Antony, and Pillai (2001) | Pondicherry | SICT | 41 | 51.2 |
| Shringi (2004) | Rajasthan | SIT | 353 | 4.8 |
| Singh, Gumber, Randhawa, Aradhana and Dhand (2004) | Punjab | SIT | 627 | 9.1 |
| Dali et al. (2004) | Maharashtra | NR** | 340 | 6.2 |
| Raval, Sunil, Belsare, Kanani and Patel (2006) | Gujarat | SIT | 164 | 1.8 |
| Raval et al. (2006) | Gujarat | SIT | 167 | 0.0 |
| Raval et al. (2006) | Gujarat | SIT | 172 | 0.0 |
| Raval et al. (2006) | Gujarat | SIT | 152 | 3.3 |
| Raval et al. (2006) | Gujarat | SIT | 161 | 1.9 |
| Ganesan (2006) | Tamil Nadu | SIT | 63 | 65.1 |
| Nishath and Ganesan (2006) | Tamil Nadu | SIT | 63 | 49.2 |
| Taggar and Bhadwal (2008) | Jammu and Kashmir | SIT | 40 | 37.5 |
| Phaniraja, Jayaramu, Jagadeesh and Kumar (2010) | Karnataka | SIT | 2668 | 2.4 |
| Aneesh, Mandeep, Katoch, Prasenjit, and Katoch (2010) | Himachal Pradesh | SIT | 440 | 14.3 |
| Trangadia, Rana and Srinivasan (2013) | Gujarat | SIT | 2310 | 2.3 |
| Trangadia et al. (2013) | Uttar Pradesh | SIT | 338 | 0.6 |
| Bhanu Rekha, Gunaseelan, Pawar, and Giri (2014) | Tamil Nadu | ELISA | 357 | 4.5 |
| Neeraja et al. (2014) | Karnataka | SIE | 45 | 26.7 |
| Ashish, Amit, and Deepak (2014) | Uttar Pradesh | SIT | 245 | 14.3 |
| Thakur, Sinha and Singh (2016) | Uttar Pradesh | SIT | 442 | 16.1 |
| Thakur et al. (2016) | Uttarakhand | SIT | 99 | 0.0 |
| Filia, Leishangthem, Mahajan, and Singh (2016) | Punjab | SICT | 121 | 14.0 |
The reported bTB prevalence for each included study on a state‐by‐state basis. Diagnostic techniques (Dx. Tests) used were single intradermal test (SIT), single intradermal comparative tuberculin test (SICT), double intradermal test (DIT), ELISA, interferon‐gamma release assay (IGRA), multiple tests that included SIT, IGRA, and ELISA (SIE), Ziehl–Neelsen (ZN) staining and detailed post‐mortem examinations (PM). While most studies reported which Dx. test was used, some were not reported (NR) or ‡were unconventional. **Confidence intervals were reported for only a few studies and thus not included in the table above.