ARCHIVED - Canada Communicable Disease Report

1 October 2007

Volume 33

Number 11

Notifiable Diseases Summary

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Erratum

Special Report of the Canadian Tuberculosis Committee - Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection in Canada

Vol . 33, No. 8, 15 April 2007

On page 78, the second paragraph of the top should read:

The CTBRS captures information on HIV co-infection for all TB cases reported in Canada. Between 1997 and 2004, the proportion of tuberculosis cases for which HIV status is known has increased from 5.7% to 23.2%.⁽¹¹⁾ Reporting by province/territory for 2004 is shown in Table 1. Determining the Canadian incidence of TB-HIV co-infection from this surveillance system is not yet possible. In 2004, HIV status was reported for only 23% of cases, of which 10% were HIV sero-positive. In the unlikely event that these were the only co-infected cases, the overall co-infection rate was 2%. Additional epidemiologic information for co-infected TB cases (i.e., age, sex, and ethnicity) can not be determined from this system due to the paucity of the data. Information from other sources have identified two important sub-populations at greater risk for TB-HIV co-infection: Aboriginal Peoples and new immigrants to Canada.