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Table 4 Pulmonary cases for which smear results are available and that are sputum smear positive 2000-2009 (Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance)

From: Tuberculosis in UK cities: workload and effectiveness of tuberculosis control programmes

PCT

Pulmonary cases with known sputum smear result (%)

Pulmonary cases with positive sputum smear (%)

 

Overall

3-year average

Overall

3-year average

 

2000-2009

2001-2003

2004-2006

2007-2009

2000-2009

2001-2003

2004-2006

2007-2009

Birmingham East and North

42.8

46.1

46.1

34.4

91.5

100.0

79.8

95.5

Heart of Birmingham Teaching

38.4

39.7

45.5

31.3

89.3

100.0

75.9

95.1

Bradford and Airedale Teaching

49.9

52.3

55.0

50.2

45.3

59.8

34.6

47.7

Leeds

58.9

60.1

57.1

58.0

42.4

50.0

39.8

40.5

Leicester City

65.0

72.5

62.5

59.5

50.6

51.1

54.9

44.8

Central Manchester

59.9

64.9

69.3

51.3

62.5

58.0

66.0

66.7

Sandwell

65.8

71.9

67.5

61.4

57.5

60.9

51.8

54.6

Region

        

London

66.3

55.3

69.2

74.1

53.3

57.1

54.6

49.0

  1. Data for Sheffield were not available from ETS.