Site of disease and number and percentage of specimens and bacteriology results
| 1988 | 1993 | 1998 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total cases | Specimens (%) | Culture positive (%) | Total cases | Specimens (%) | Culture positive (%) | Total cases | Specimens (%) | Culture positive (%) | |
| *Children with more than one disease category have been included in all relevant categories—thus percentages read horizontally. | |||||||||
| †Eight children in 1988 and 1993, and 20 children in 1998 had sputum smear positive disease. | |||||||||
| Total* (%) | 308 | 138 (45) | 60 (19) | 408 | 125 (31) | 61 (15) | 364 | 124 (34) | 81 (22) |
| Pulmonary† (%) | 174 | 67 (39) | 34 (20) | 138 | 50 (36) | 25 (18) | 176 | 64 (36) | 43 (24) |
| Other respiratory (%) | 48 | 10 (21) | 7 (15) | 29 | 4 (14) | 1 (3) | 64 | 9 (14) | 4 (6) |
| Non-respiratory (%) | 106 | 72 (68) | 30 (28) | 134 | 68 (51) | 30 (22) | 131 | 64 (49) | 40 (31) |
| Pulmonary and non-respiratory | 13 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 |
| Other respiratory and non-respiratory | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Unknown (%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 5 (5) | 5 (5) | 7 | 0 | 0 |