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Tuberkuloseudviklingen i Danmark 1972-1996

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Author

  • S Poulsen
  • T Ronne
  • A Kok-Jensen
  • J O Bauer
  • Håkan Miörner

Summary, in English

The present study is based on notified cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the National tbc. register 1972-1996. A decline in Tb incidence was seen from 1972 and until the mid-1980's. Subsequently the trend has reversed due to an increasing number of TB cases in foreigners. In 1996, 60% of all cases of TB in Denmark were found in foreigners reflecting the rising number of refugees and their families arriving in Denmark from highly endemic areas, mainly Somalia. Among native Danes the TB incidence fell from 14 per 100,000 in 1972 to 4 per 100,000 in the 1980's and stabilized at this very low level. The unchanged incidence in Danes covers a falling incidence in the older and a rising incidence in the younger and middle-aged adult population, mainly in the capital. Approximately half of the cases occur in high-risk groups. The TB-epidemic is close to elimination in the indigenous Danish population, but the disease is maintained at a low level probably due to increased patient and doctor delay and resulting microepidemics primarily in high-risk populations.

Publishing year

1999

Language

Danish

Pages

3452-3457

Publication/Series

Ugeskrift for Læger

Volume

161

Issue

23

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Den Almindelige Danske Lægeforening

Topic

  • Microbiology in the medical area

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0041-5782