title: The pattern of tuberculosis in Aswan Chest Hospital, Egypt.
abstract: Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem. The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of TB in Aswan Chest Hospital, Aswan, Egypt.
  
  
  
  This cross-sectional study was carried out using medical records from the TB registry in Aswan Chest Hospital. The investigated variables included demographic characteristics, type of TB infection, and affected organs. All data were coded and statistically analyzed.
  
  
  
  The average age of the 557 patients infected with TB was 40.31±18.87years; 58.2% of the cases were men and 41.8% were women. In both sexes, the highest number of TB patients was from the reproductive age groups. During the 5-year study period, the highest percentage of cases were new cases and the highest frequency of cases was during 2011 and the lowest frequency was during 2015. Pulmonary TB cases showed a sharp decline; however, there was a decrease in extrapulmonary TB cases during 2012 and 2013, with a slight rise in 2014 and 2015. Of the pulmonary TB cases, 82.5% were smear-positive TB.
  
  
  
  There was a decline in the total number of TB cases across the studied years and the most studied cases were pulmonary smear-positive and new cases. Younger people represented a large percentage of reported cases.
authors.affiliation: Chest Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Electronic address: emansobh2012@Gmail.com.
authors.forename: Eman
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sobh
authors.affiliation: Chest Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Aswan University, Aswan, Egypt.
authors.forename: Sayed Abd Elsabour
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kinawy
authors.affiliation: Chest Diseases Department, Aswan Chest Hospital, Aswan, Egypt.
authors.forename: Yasser Mohamad Ahmad
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Abdelkarim
authors.affiliation: Chest Diseases Department, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
authors.forename: Mahmoud Ahmed
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Arafa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004534:Egypt / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Extrapulmonary tuberculosis; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Tuberculosis