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Table 4 Incidence of clustered tuberculosis in Denmark 1992-2006, according to ethnicity, by age

From: Migrant tuberculosis: the extent of transmission in a low burden country

n *

Danes

Migrants

Somalis

Greenlanders

Others**

Total

Age

Total

Total

Total

Total

Total

Total

0-19

0,3

0,5

0,4

33,1

36,9

35,0

509,0

21,5

12,2

2,1

2,3

2,2

20-39

1,3

2,6

2,0

41,1

49,1

45,1

907,7

118,1

15,9

5,3

7,0

6,2

40-59

1,3

5,0

3,2

17,7

24,9

21,4

504,0

219,4

10,5

2,3

6,3

4,3

60-79

1,1

2,4

1,7

11,2

22,6

15,7

840,3

121,1

10,0

1,5

3,0

2,2

80+

1,3

2,4

1,6

3,3

10,1

4,9

0,0

0,0

5,0

1,3

2,6

1,7

All

1,0

2,7

1,9

29,6

37,9

33,6

725,4

121,0

13,0

2,9

4,9

3,9

  1. * Cases are represented by clustered M. tuberculosis strains included in study (n = 2677), genotyped by IS6110-RFLP/Spoligo in Denmark, 1992-2004, including cases without known country of birth (non-Danish, in "others") (n = 14).
  2. ** Pooling of non-Somali-Greenlandic migrants