The aim of this study was to characterize the clinical and epidemiological patterns of tuberculosis in the district of Capão Redondo, Municipality of Sao Paulo during the period of 2000 up to 2009. It was a historical series that used secondary data from Tbweb. Descriptive analysis of the variables were realized: year of notification, sex, age, education, type of case, clinical, serological testing for HIV, type of supervision and outcome of the case. There was a predominance of males, young adults, new case pulmonary tuberculosis, being 10% of cases infected with hiv. The interpretation of the results presented showed that the proposed targets for tuberculosis control have not been achieved regarding to healing and treatment dropout. However, it was observed the efforts from health services in disease control through the increased of the coverage on supervised treatment.
Tuberculosis; Epidemiology; Public health
