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KMID : 1143420190120130366
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Public Health Weekly Report
2019 Volume.12 No. 13 p.366 ~ p.371
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Notified Tuberculosis in the Republic of Korea, 2018
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Kim Hye-Rim
Shin Jee-Yeon
Kim Hee-Ae
Lee Jae-Eun
Kim Jong-Hee
Kong In-Sik
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Abstract
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In 2018, the overall notification rate of new TB cases was 51.5 per 100,000 population, with a reduction of 6.4% from the previous year rate, and decreasing patterns observed in almost all age groups. However, 45.5% of new TB cases involved elderly patients aged 65 years or older, and showed new epidemiological transition, compared to 10 years ago (27.5%). The region with the highest tuberculosis notification rates per 100,000 population was in Jeonnam (75.6), followed by Gangwon (75.3) and Gyeongbuk (69.5). The crude incidence in foreign-born new TB patients decreased from 1,632 in 2017 to 1,398 in 2018, and the number of multidrug-resistant TB cases dropped from 681 in 2017 to 618 in 2018. To reduce the TB burden, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been strengthening the "The Second National TB Control Plan, 2018-2022," applied in recent situation in the Republic of Korea and resolution from the first UN high-level meeting on TB.
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KEYWORD
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Tuberculosis, TB patients, Epidemiological transition, Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
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