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Table 1 Characteristics of the study participants

From: Evaluation of treatment response in extrapulmonary tuberculosis in a low-resource setting

 

Total

Lymphadenitis

Pleuritis

Other sites of infectiona

 

n = 126

n = 67

n = 31

n = 28

  

TB

Non-TB

TB

Non-TB

TB

Non-TB

Characteristics

 

n = 34

n = 33

n = 20

n = 11

n = 10

n = 18

Female, n (%)

56 (44%)

17 (50%)

14 (42%)

7 (35%)

5 (45%)

5 (50%)

8 (44%)

Age, years, median [IQR]

27 [8–41]

27 [7–38]

13 [7–49]

32 [23–50]

20 [6–41]

27 [19–34]

40 [26–50]

Children (< 15 years), n (%)

41 (33%)

11 (32%)

18 (55%)

3 (15%)

4 (36%)

2 (20%)

3 (17%)

HIV status, n (%)

 HIV positive

20 (16%)

7 (21%)

2 (6%)

5 (25%)

0 (−)

2 (20%)

4 (22%)

 HIV negative

74 (59%)

25 (74%)

10 (30%)

15 (75%)

6 (55%)

6 (60%)

12 (67%)

 Unknown

32 (25%)

2 (6%)

21 (64%)

0 (−)

5 (45%)

2 (20%)

2 (11%)

Comorbidities, n (%)

 Diabetes

4 (3%)

0 (−)

1 (3%)

1 (5%)

1 (9%)

1 (10%)

0 (−)

 Heart disease/HT

12 (10%)

2 (6%)

3 (9%)

0 (−)

2 (18%)

1 (10%)

4 (24%)

 COPD/Asthma

7 (6%)

3 (9%)

2 (6%)

0 (−)

1 (9%)

1 (10%)

0 (−)

Outpatient, n (%)

76 (60%)

32 (94%)

32 (97%)

7 (35%)

0 (−)

3 (30%)

2 (11%)

  1. Abbreviations: TB tuberculosis, IQR interquartile range, HIV human immunodeficiency virus, HT hypertension, COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  2. a TB cases: peritonitis (n = 6), meningitis (n = 2), pericarditis (n = 1), spondylitis (n = 1); non-TB cases: peritonitis (n = 10), meningitis (n = 6), mastitis (n = 1), osteomyelitis (n = 1)