[Tuberculosis Annual Report 2010--(7) Tuberculosis characteristics upon diagnosis-2].
From 2007 to 2010, 229 newly notified tuberculosis (TB) cases with HIV infection were reported. These cases were detected in 204 (89.1%) male and 25 (10.9%) female patients; 50 (21.8%) of these patients were foreigners. The present TB surveillance system does not provide reliable data on whether HIV tests were performed for TB cases; therefore, we report only those TB patients with HIV infection. In 2010, the proportion of newly notified TB cases with diabetes mellitus was 13.3% (3,085/23,261); diabetes was observed in 15.4% of male patients and 9.7% of female patients. In 2010, drug susceptibility test (DST) results were obtained for 8,380 (72.9%) of 11,495 culture-positive pulmonary TB cases through the TB surveillance system. The proportion of multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB), isoniazid resistance, and rifampicin resistance among the newly identified cases was 0.5%, 4.1%, and 0.7%, respectively. Among previously tested cases, the proportion was 3.9%, 11.4%, and 5.2%, respectively. Resistance thus appears to have remained stable over the past 4 years (2007-2010). From 2007 to 2010, among the new pulmonary TB cases in foreign nationals, MDR-TB was observed in 2.9% of male patients and 4.2% of female patients.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008826:Microbial Sensitivity Tests; D008875:Middle Aged; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology