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\subsection \subsubsection  {Notifications in high-income countries adjusted by a standard factor to account for under-reporting and under-diagnosis.} This method is used for 73 countries (all high-income countries except the Netherlands and the United Kingdom), which accounted for 3\% of the estimated global number of incident cases in 2014. In the absence of country-specific data on the quality and coverage of TB surveillance systems, it was assumed that TB surveillance systems from countries in the high-income group performed similarly well, although the model does allow for stochastic fluctuations. The exceptions were the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, where the underreporting of TB cases has been measured using inventory studies and capture–recapture modelling\cite{Anderson2010}\cite{17156496}. For these two countries, the results from these studies were used to measure TB incidence directly.