Profile épidémiologique de la tuberculose pulmonaire et extra-pulmonaire au niveau de la wilaya d’Ain Témouchent

Abstract

Tuberculosis currently remains one of the most widespread infectious diseases and causes the most deaths worldwide. Despite the efforts made in terms of health policy in Algeria, it remains a widespread disease. This work aims to identify trends in the incidence of tuberculosis and to describe the epidemiological profile in the region of Ain Témouchent from 2013 to 2020. It was an exhaustive study on tuberculosis patients declared in 2356 at the office of the regional health base of Ain Témouchent for eight years. . The information is collected from the regional notifiable disease notification registry. The incidence of tuberculosis is estimated in the region of Ain Témouchent at 67.17/100,000 inhabitants with a stable number of declared cases of human tuberculosis during the period between 2013 and 2017. A clear predominance of male cases is observed throughout the study period (1268 cases (53.82%) against 1088 cases in women (46.17%), sex ratio M/F = 1.16). All age groups are affected, with a predominance of adults rather than young people. The majority of patients (69.48%) belong to the age group between 15 and 44 years. These results show that tuberculosis remains a major public health problem in the wilaya of Ain Témouchent and that efforts to fight tuberculosis must be intensified in order to control the spread of the disease in groups at risk and to reduce it. the incidence. of this disease