... status and health insurance status at the time of admission. In addition, we reviewed TB disease characteristics for each case such as clinical, radiological and microbiological features, diagnostic ... (0.08%), and chest wall, pancreas, tongue, palatine tonsil in 1 (0 .04% ) patient each (Table 2). A total of 2113 (87.9%) were classified as “new cases”, 262 (10.9%) as “recurrence cases”, either failure ... tuberculosis and poverty (Creswell et al., 2011). The data regarding level of education, occupation and employment status characterize the social situation of the population of patients in our...