Sites of disease by ethnic group for cases of tuberculosis in children in the 1998 survey
| White | ISC | Black African | Other + missing | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
| Percentages are based on number of children in each category, thus percentages may total greater than 100 as some children had more than one site of disease (see text). Seven children were of unknown ethnicity. | ||||||||||
| *Includes 62 children with cervical node involvement. | ||||||||||
| †Includes five children with spinal involvement. | ||||||||||
| ‡Includes two children with genitourinary disease. | ||||||||||
| All respiratory | 54 | 56 | 85 | 71 | 57 | 71 | 44 | 64 | 240 | 66 |
| Pulmonary | 44 | 46 | 61 | 51 | 43 | 54 | 28 | 41 | 176 | 48 |
| Pleural | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| Intrathoracic lymph nodes | 10 | 10 | 22 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 20 | 59 | 16 |
| Non-respiratory | 43 | 45 | 38 | 32 | 23 | 29 | 31 | 50 | 138 | 38 |
| Peripheral lymph nodes* | 31 | 32 | 23 | 19 | 15 | 19 | 13 | 21 | 83 | 23 |
| Bone and joint† | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 |
| Abdomen | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 2 |
| Central nervous system | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 4 |
| Miliary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| Cryptic | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 3 |
| Other‡ | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 3 |
| Unknown | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| Total children | 96 | 100 | 119 | 100 | 80 | 100 | 62 | 100 | 364 | 100 |