Demographic features and disease characteristics of culture-positive tuberculosis cases in Canada by drug susceptibility pattern of incident case isolate (1997–2008).

Abbreviations: No., number; vs, versus; MDR multidrug-resistant; OR odds ratio; CBA Canadian-born Aboriginal; CBO Canadian-born ‘other’; FB foreign-born; HIV human immunodeficiency virus.
*Refers to resistance to one or more first-line drugs but not meeting the definition of MDR.
†Confidence Intervals calculated using Fisher’s exact methods; ORs reaching statistical significance, based on non-overlapping 95% CIs are highlighted in italics.
‡As defined by the Canadian Tuberculosis Standards (1).
§includes primary, respiratory, and ‘other respiratory’.
IIincludes peripheral lymph nodes, miliary, CNS and other non-respiratory.