Epidemiology of Pediatric Tuberculosis and Factors Associated with Unsuccessful Treatment Outcomes in the Centre Region of Cameroon: A Three-Year Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 3

Distribution of treatment outcomes and TB types in children in the three years (2018–2020).

Treatment outcome and type of TB	Time in years			Total
	2018 N (%)	2019 N (%)	2020 N (%)
Successful	115 (77.2)	115 (78.8)	258 (80)	488 (80)
Completed	74 (48.4)	74 (50.7)	203 (57.5)	351 (57.5)
Cured	41 (28.8)	41 (28.1)	55 (22.5)	137 (22.5)
Unsuccessful	38 (24.8)	31 (21.2)	53 (17.6)	122 (20)
Died	22 (14.4)	17 (11.6)	34 (12.0)	73 (12.0)
Failure	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	4 (0.7)	4 (0.6)
Lost to followup	8 (5.2)	5 (3.4)	12 (3.9)	25 (4.1)
Not evaluated	8 (5.2)	9 (6.2)	3 (1.0)	20 (3.3)
Total type of TB	153	146	311	610
EPTB	36 (23.5)	41 (28.1)	100 (32.2)	177 (29.0)
PTB−	49 (32.0)	42 (28.8)	97 (31.2)	188 (30.8)
PTB+	68 (44.4)	63 (43.2)	114 (36.7)	245 (40.2)

EPTB extra pulmonary TB, PTB+ bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB, PTB− clinically diagnosed pulmonary TB.