Tuberculosis in Europe

Extrapulmonary tuberculosis in the EU Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious and sometimes lethal infectious bacterial disease which most commonly affects the lungs. When the infection occurs somewhere other than the lungs, the disease is called extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The proportion of extrapulmonary tuberculosis among all tuberculosis varies significantly across the European Union (EU). Main reasons are different risk factors for extrapulmonary TB, under-diagnosis or under-reporting. Cases per 100 00 population 90 Extrapulmonary tuberculosis 50 25 Pulmonary tuberculosis 8 Data from the ECDC/WHO Europe Tuberculosis Surveillance and ecoc Monitoring in Europe 2013. Stockholm, 2013 11110 1 in every 5 tuberculosis patients has extrapulmonary tuberculosis ТВ сases 102 347 Tuberculosis cases are decreasing but extrapulmonary TB does not show the same downward trend. As a result, 72 334 the proportion of extrapulmonary TB patients increased from 16% in 2002 to 22% in 2011 Extrapulmonary TB cases 16 689 16 116 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011