Research Article
Tuberculosis among Patients Undergoing Solid Organ Transplantation or Dialysis in a Low-Endemic Country, 2004-2017
Table 3
Characteristics of patients who developed active tuberculosis during follow-up,
(%).
| | Solid organ transplant recipients () | Patients on chronic dialysis () |
| Male | 1 (25) | 3 (27) | | 1 (25) | 5 (45) | | 3 (75) | 6 (55) | Year of study inclusion | | | 2004-2009 | 3 (75) | 8 (73) | 2010-2017 | 1 (25) | 3 (27) | Origin | | | Denmark | 1 (25) | 1 (9) | Greenland | 0 | 2 (18) | Other non-TB endemic countries | 0 | 0 | Other TB endemic countries | 3 (75)a | 8 (73)b | SOT type (kidney/liver/lung/heart) | 3/1/0/0 | | Type of TB | | | Pulmonary | 4 (100) | 6 (55) | Spine | | 2 (18) | Lymph node | | 2 (18) | Miliary | | 1 (9) | Time from SOT/dialysis to TB | 2.6 years (IQR 0.6-5.3) | 0.9 years (IQR 0.2-1.9) |
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aYugoslavia: 1, Pakistan: 1, and Somalia: 1; bPakistan: 2, Philippines: 2, Rumania: 1, Somalia: 1, and Turkey: 2.
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