Tuberculosis - East of England

 Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by bacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

This page contains surveillance information from the Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance programme for the East of England.

 

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Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance in England and Wales started in 1999. This replaced a previous work programme of five-yearly national tuberculosis surveys. The aim of the Enhanced TB Surveillance system is to provide more detailed and comparable information on the epidemiology of tuberculosis, looking at the incidence and risk factors in subgroups of the population. The minimum dataset includes notification details, demographic, clinical and microbiological information on all cases of tuberculosis reported by clinicians.

Latest East of England Reports

Six years since the TB Action Plan: Annual Report on Tuberculosis Surveillance in the East of England 2011 (PDF, 310 KB)

Six years since the TB Action Plan: Annual Report on Tuberculosis Surveillance in the East of England 2011 - Slide Set (PowerPoint Presentation, 1.3 MB)

Latest National Report

Tuberculosis in the UK: Annual report on tuberculosis surveillance in the UK 2010