Reported Tuberculosis in the United States 2012

This report presents summary data for TB cases verified and counted in 2012. The data were submitted to CDC’s Division of TB Elimination by 60 reporting areas, 50 states, the District of Columbia, New York City, Puerto Rico, and seven other jurisdictions in the Pacific and Caribbean. The report contains an Executive Commentary, which provides highlights of the 2012 data, Technical Notes including information about how the data were collected and reported, seven major data sections, and appendices. The report also includes Morbidity Trend Tables with overall TB case counts and case rates for the United States and the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands by selected demographic clinical and genotypic characteristics; Morbidity Tables, 2012; Morbidity Tables 2010; Morbidity Tables, Reporting Areas 2012; Morbidity Tables Reporting Areas 2010; Morbidity Tables, Cities and Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 2012; and Surveillance Slide Set, 2012.