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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2018, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (10): 1089-1094.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-6621.2018.10.012

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Spatial analysis on smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Zhejiang province between year 2015 and 2017

Jian-mei WANG1,Yu ZHANG2,Nan QIN1,Yue WANG1,Lin ZHOU2,(),Wei-bing WANG1,()   

  1. 1. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Social Risk Governance in Health, Shanghai 200032, China
  • Received:2018-06-03 Online:2018-10-10 Published:2018-10-18
  • Contact: Lin ZHOU,Wei-bing WANG E-mail:lzhou@cdc.zj.cn;wwb@fudan.edu.cn

Abstract:

Objective To analyze the spatial distribution pattern of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients registered in Zhejiang province, and determine the gathered areas, providing theoretical basis for further study of the risk factors of tuberculosis and prevention and control strategies. Methods The registration data of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in 89 counties in Zhejiang province from 2015 to 2017 was collected and was merged with a vector map to build spatial databases by ArcGIS (version 10.0). Global Moran’s I and local Moran’s I were calculated by GeoDa (version 1.6.0) software respectively, as well as spatial-temporal analysis were studied by SaTScan (version 9.3)software to detect the spatial autocorrelation and cluster range of the distribution of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Zhejiang province. Results From 2015 to 2017, a total of 30292 cases of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis were registered in Zhejiang province, and the mean annual registered incidence rate of each region was 20.69/100000 (range: 4.73 to 45.61/100000). The distribution of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis of each region in Zhejiang province showed global spatial autocorrelation (Moran’s I=0.429,Z=5.834,P=0.001). While at the local scale, 25 regions (P<0.05) with positive local spatial correlation (high-high pattern and low-low pattern) and negative local spatial correlation (low-high pattern and high-low pattern) were sort out for analysis, in which 12 regions showed high-high pattern and 11 regions showed low-low pattern, accounting for 92.0% (23/25), indicating the main result of local spatial autocorrelation analysis was positive. Spatial-temporal analysis using SaTScan software detected four cluster areas including 18 regions, and each cluster area showed statistical significance (P<0.001) with log likelihood ratio (LLR) of 211.54,57.66,51.70,44.47, respectively. Conclusion There are apparent spatial autocorrelation and relative strong spatial heterogeneity existed in the distribution of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Zhejiang province.

Key words: Tuberculosis, pulmonary, Disease notification, Poisson distribution, Epidemiologic studies, Spatial-temporal analysis