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Table 3 Sputum culture results among patients with a positive blood culture for M. tuberculosis (n = 41)

From: Blood cultures for the diagnosis of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis among HIV-infected patients from rural South Africa: a cross-sectional study

  

Blood culture drug-susceptibility test result

  

DS TB

MDR-TB

XDR-TB

DST incomplete

Sputum culture result

DS TB

4

   
 

MDR-TB

 

4

  
 

XDR-TB

  

12

 
 

DST incompletea

  

1

 
 

No growth

 

1

1

 
 

Not collected

6

3

6

3

Additive yield of blood by DST category

 

6 (60%)

4 (50%)

8 (40%)

3 (100%)

  1. DS TB = drug-susceptible TB.
  2. MDR-TB: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
  3. XDR-TB: Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
  4. DST: drug-susceptibility test. a M. tuberculosis identified, but DST not available.