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Table 3 Culture and smear status by age group in household transmitters and all other cases

From: Recent household transmission of tuberculosis in England, 2010–2012: retrospective national cohort study combining epidemiological and molecular strain typing data

 

Household transmitters

All other cases (non-household transmitters)

Culture positive

Smear positive

Culture positive

Smear positive

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Age

    

0–14

29 (42.0)

16 (23.2)

265 (25.0)

58 (5.5)

15–24

120 (84.5)

79 (55.6)

2422 (68.6)

741 (21.0)

25–44

201 (88.5)

132 (58.1)

6806 (62.7)

1568 (14.5)

45–64

77 (92.8)

53 (63.9)

2732 (55.7)

765 (15.6)

65+

26 (96.3)

15 (55.6)

1846 (58.2)

456 (14.4)

Total

453 (92.7)

295 (53.8)

14,071 (59.8)

3588 (15.3)