TABLE 1.
All 763 cases of M. tuberculosis-positive TBa among Somalian immigrants in Denmark from 1992 through 1999 by sex, age group, and cluster frequency
| Parameter | Value [no. (%)]
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| 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 1992–1999
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| No. (%) | No. clusterb (%) | Total | |||||||||
| Male | 20 (95.2) | 31 (70.5) | 50 (65.8) | 40 (42.6) | 48 (50.5) | 85 (55.9) | 76 (52.8) | 74 (54.0) | 424 (55.6) | 251 (32.9) | |
| Female | 1 (4.8) | 13 (29.5) | 26 (34.2) | 54 (57.4) | 47 (49.5) | 67 (44.1) | 68 (47.2) | 63 (45.7) | 339 (44.4) | 200 (26.2) | |
| ≤15 yr old | 0 | 10 (22.7) | 13 (17.1) | 10 (10.6) | 13 (13.7) | 20 (13.2) | 13 (9.0) | 20 (14.6) | 99 (13.0) | 63 (63.6) | |
| 16–30 yr old | 17 (81.0) | 23 (52.3) | 49 (64.5) | 65 (69.1) | 56 (58.9) | 86 (56.6) | 85 (59.0) | 65 (47.4) | 446 (58.5) | 263 (59.0) | |
| 31–45 yr old | 4 (19.0) | 7 (15.9) | 10 (13.2) | 14 (14.9) | 21 (22.1) | 38 (25.0) | 42 (29.2) | 47 (34.3) | 183 (24.0) | 105 (57.4) | |
| 46–60 yr old | 0 | 2 (4.5) | 2 (2.6) | 3 (3.2) | 2 (2.1) | 5 (3.3) | 3 (2.1) | 1 (0.7) | 18 (2.4) | 11 (61.1) | |
| 61–75 yr old | 0 | 2 (4.5) | 2 (2.6) | 2 (2.1) | 2 (2.1) | 3 (2.0) | 1 (0.7) | 4 (2.9) | 16 (2.1) | 9 (56.3) | |
| >75 yr old | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.1) | 0 | |
| Total no.c (%) | 21 (100.0) | 44 (100.0) | 76 (100.0) | 94 (100.0) | 95 (100.0) | 152 (100.0) | 144 (100.0) | 137 (100.0) | 763 (100.0) | ||
| No. clusterb (%) | 7 (33.3) | 29 (65.9) | 50 (65.8) | 44 (46.8) | 55 (57.9) | 95 (62.5) | 90 (62.5) | 81 (59.1) | 451 (59.1) | ||
| No. LC clusterb (%) | 2 (9.5) | 12 (27.3) | 17 (22.4) | 17 (18.1) | 24 (25.3) | 29 (19.1) | 30 (20.8) | 29 (21.2) | 160 (21.0) | ||
| No. LC unique spoligoe (%) | 0 | 3 (25.0) | 2 (11.8) | 1 (5.9) | 4 (16.7) | 6 (20.7) | 3 (10.0) | 11 (37.9) | 30 (3.9) | ||
a
More than 97% of all reported M. tuberculosis culture-positive Somalian patients in Denmark.
b
Number of patients in any cluster.
c
Total number of patients.
d
Number of patients in a cluster with low-copy-number (LC) strains harboring only one to five copies of the insertion element IS6110.
e
Number of patients in a cluster with low-copy-number strains with unique spoligo patterns.