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Table 3 Factors associated with poor treatment outcome among patients SOM due to fungal infection

From: Aspergillus fumigatus carrying TR34/L98H resistance allele causing complicated suppurative otitis media in Tanzania: Call for improved diagnosis of fungi in sub-Saharan Africa

Variable

Poor treatment outcome n (%)

OR(95 % CI)

P

Agea

29.5(IQR16-43)

1.04(1.00–1.08)

0.062

Sex

   

 Male (24)

3(12.50)

1

 

 Female (20)

4(20.00)

1.75(0.34–8.95)

0.5

HIV status

   

 Negative (38)

6(15.79)

1

 

 Positive (6)

1(16.67)

1.07(0.11–10.82)

0.95

Illness durationa

18(IQR 9–32)

0.98(0.94–1.02)

0.49

Fungal growth type

   

 Yeast (21)

2(9.52)

1

 

 Molds (23)

5(21.74)

2.64(0.45–15.36)

0.2

  1. aMedian