Table 2 Characteristics of tuberculosis patients associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing and non-Beijing strains.

From: Combining molecular typing and spatial pattern analysis to identify areas of high tuberculosis transmission in a moderate-incidence county in Taiwan

 

Bacterial lineage

Crude odds ratio (95% CI)

Beijing; No. (%)

Non-Beijing; No. (%)

Gender

 Male

80 (70.18)

138 (73.02)

0.8696 (0.520–1.45)

 Female

34 (29.82)

51 (26.98)

Reference

Age

 ≤30

7 (6.14)

2 (1.06)

6.582 (1.330–32.570)*

 31–50

10 (8.77)

22 (11.64)

0.855 (0.383–1.910)

 51–70

30 (26.32)

39 (20.63)

1.45 (0.826–2.534)

 >70

67 (58.77)

126 (66.67)

Reference

Sputum smear

 Positive

62 (54.39)

93 (49.21)

1.31 (0.772–1.961)

 Negative

52 (45.61)

96 (50.79)

Reference

Location

 Pulmonary

108 (94.74)

183 (96.83)

Reference

 Extra-pulmonary

6 (5.26)

6 (3.17)

1.694 (0.533–5.385)

Antibiotic resistance pattern

 All sensitive

99 (86.84)

163 (86.24)

Reference

 Monoresistance

2 (1.75)

12 (6.35)

0.2744 (0.006–1.252)

 Polyresistance

13 (11.40)

13 (6.88)

1.646 (0.735–3.695)

 Multidrug resistance

0 (0.00)

1 (0.53)

MIRU analysis

 Clustered

36 (31.58)

36 (19.05)

1.962 (1.147–3.354)*

 Non-clustered

78 (68.42)

153 (80.95)

Reference

  1. *Indicates that the OR is significant and p < 0.05.