Table 2.

Site of tuberculosis (TB) among migrant and non-migrant extrapulmonary TB^a cases in the European Union/European Free Trade Association (EU/EFTA), 1995–2017 (n = 251 681)

	Migrants		Non-migrants
	n	%	n	%
Lymphatic	37 150	47.6∗	43 933	25.3
Pleural	13 730	17.6†	73 052	42.1
Bone/joint incl. spine	6417	8.2∗	12 513	7.2
Disseminated	3947	5.1∗	8245	4.8
Genitourinary	3174	4.1†	11 547	6.7
Peritoneal/digestive	3091	4.0∗	3879	2.2
CNS incl. meningitis	2775	3.6∗	5835	3.4
Otherb	7793	10.0∗	14 600	8.4
Totalc	78 077		173 604

CNS, central nervous system.

∗Proportion is higher in migrants.

†Proportion is higher in non-migrants.

^aExtrapulmonary TB is defined as any case of TB involving organs or anatomical sites other than the lungs, with or without coexistent lung disease.

^b‘Other’ refers to TB infection in any organ or anatomical site of the body that falls outside the specified categories.

^cThere are an additional 100 746 cases not reported here for which the site of TB is known to be extrapulmonary, but the exact site is unknown.