Table 3.
Trend Of Tuberculosis By Month, Season, And Year at Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital, Eastern Ethiopia, January 2015–April 2019
| Season | Years | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 | 2017/2018 | 2018/2019 | 2019 | ||||||||
| MTB Detected | RR-Detected | MTB Detected | RR-Detected | MTB Detected | RR-Detected | MTB Detected | RR-Detected | MTB Detected | RR-Detected | MTB Detected | RR-Detected | |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |
| Winter | 11 (17.5) | 0 | 63 (17.6) | 5 (7.9) | 72 (16) | 3 (4.2) | 60 (10.9) | 2 (3.3) | 97 (11.3) | 2 (2.1) | 303 (13.3) | 12 (4) |
| December | 11 (17.5) | 0 | 41 (16.9) | 3 (6.8) | 6 (11.3) | 0 | 60 (10.9) | 2 (3.2) | N/A | N/A | 118 (13) | 5 (4.2) |
| January | N/A | N/A | 12 (16) | 0 | 36 (15.9) | 1 (2.7) | N/A | N/A | 48 (10.7) | 2 (4) | 96 (12.8) | 3 (3.1) |
| February | N/A | N/A | 10 (25.6) | 2 (16.7) | 30 (17.6) | 2 (6.3) | N/A | N/A | 49 (12) | 0 | 89 (14.4) | 4 (4.5) |
| Autumn | 40 (27.9) | 5 (12.5) | 33 (22.9) | 6 (18.2) | 143 (18.7) | 7 (4.9) | 116 (15) | 0 | 122 (14.8) | 0 | 454 (17.1) | 18 (4) |
| March | 15 (30.6) | 0 | 10 (26.3) | 1 (9.1) | 47 (17.8) | 2 (4.2) | 9 (9.9) | 0 | 80 (15.1) | 0 | 161 (16.5) | 3 (1.9) |
| April | 11 (25) | 3 (21.4) | 10 (21.7) | 0 | 45 (19.3) | 3 (6.3) | 38 (13.6) | 0 | 42 (14.3) | 0 | 146 (16.3) | 6 (4.1) |
| May | 14 (28) | 2 (12.5) | 13 (21.7) | 2 (13.3) | 51 (19.1) | 2 (3.8) | 69 (17.1) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 147 (18.8) | 6 (4.1) |
| Summer | 39 (29.3) | 7 (17.9) | 38 (20.9) | 2 (5.2) | 124 (16.7) | 5 (4) | 109 (14.7) | 2 (1.8) | N/A | N/A | 310 (17.2) | 16 (5.2) |
| June | 18 (29.5) | 5 (27.8) | 10 (22.7) | 0 | 40 (16.6) | 2 (5) | 45 (16.9) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 113 (18.4) | 7 (6.2) |
| July | 8 (22.2) | 0 | 8 (18.2) | 1 | 43 (17.1) | 0 | 36 (12.2) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 95 (15.2) | 1 (1.1) |
| August | 13 (36.1) | 2 (15.4) | 20 (21.1) | 1 (5) | 41 (16.5) | 3 (7.3) | 28 (15.4) | 2 (7.1) | N/A | N/A | 102 (18.2) | 8 (7.8) |
| Spring | 12 (23.5) | 1 (8.3) | 72 (17) | 4 (5.6) | 73 (14.6) | 2 (2.7) | 3 (10) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 187 (14.7) | 7 (3.7) |
| September | 4 (26.7) | 0 | 23 (17.8) | 0 | 27 (16.7) | 2 (7.4) | 3 (9.1) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 57 (16.8) | 2 (3.5) |
| October | 5 (20) | 1 (20) | 24 (19) | 1 (4.2) | 20 (11.3) | 0 | 1 (9.1) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 50 (14.7) | 2 ((4) |
| November | 3 (27.3) | 0 | 25 (14.8) | 3 (12) | 26 (16.2) | 0 | 26 (10.2) | 0 | N/A | N/A | 80 (14.3) | 3 (3.8) |
Abbreviations: N/A, not applicable; N, number of mycobacterium tuberculosis cases detected; MTB, mycobacterium tuberculosis; RR, rifampicin resistance.