Trends of Smear Positive Pulmonary Tuberculosis at District Tuberculosis Centre, Bhiwani, Haryana: A Two Year Retrospective Study

Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis continues to be one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem in India and contributes to approximately 2.3 million new cases annually; thus making India the country with highest load of TB cases in the world. In 2010, India had estimated one-quarter (26%) of all TB cases worldwide. India has more TB cases annually than any other country globally, with estimated prevalence, incidence and death rate of 256, 185 and 26 per l00, 000 population respectively. The prevalence of TB is an important epidemiological index to measure the burden in a community. A retrospective study was conducted from first January 2014 to thirty first December 2015 at district tuberculosis centre Bhiwani in Haryana. Data of Clinically suspected TB cases during this period was collected from TB laboratory registration log book using dat Abstraction sheet. The data were compiled and analyzed.

The study indicates the trends of occurrence of smear positive pulmonary TB cases in the study area from January 2014 to December 2015. The Study showed higher occurrence of TB in males i.e 1218 (74.04%) compared to females i.e. 437 (26.56%). Maximum affected age group was between 41 and 50 years. The lowest number of pulmonary TB was observed in the age group < 15 year.