Table 2 Stratification of TB positive patients based on age, HIV status, glycosuria, drug-resistance, sputum smear grading, clinical manifestations, and geographic region.
From: Lipoarabinomannan antigenic epitope differences in tuberculosis disease subtypes
TB positive patients | No. |
|---|---|
Adults | 200 |
Pediatric | 19 |
HIV | |
Positive | 55 |
Negative | 164 |
Glycosuria | |
positive | 24 |
negative | 195 |
Geographic area | |
Peru | 80 |
Guinea Bissau | 17 |
Uganda | 97 |
Venezuela | 25 |
Pleural biopsy acid fast bacilli positive | 19 |
Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smear microscopy positive | 11 |
Auramine sputum smear microscopy | |
0 | 13 |
1 | 22 |
2 | 16 |
3 | 5 |
Paucibacillary | 9 |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate resistant to | |
Isoniazid (only) | 2 |
Multi-drug resistance | 8 |
Pulmonary TB | 195 |
Extra-pulmonary TB | 24 |
Pleural | 19 |
Laryngeal | 1 |
Meningoencephalitis | 1 |
Bone | 1 |
Ganglionic | 1 |
PPD negative controls | |
Symptomatic (joint pain, fever, neurologic impairment, neuropathy, fatigue) | 106 |
Healthy non-symptomatic | 105 |
