Table 1 Characteristics of children.

From: Microbiological diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in children by oral swab polymerase chain reaction

 

All

N = 165

Confirmed TB

40 (24.2%)a

Unconfirmed TB

81 (49.1%)

Unlikely TB

44 (26.7%)

P value

Age months

Median (IQR)

30.5

(13.3–80.8)

23.0

(13.5–86.4)

24.2

(10.7–59.3)

45.2

(27.3–91.0)

0.122

Age category     <5 years     ≥5 years

113 (68.5)

52 (31.5)

27 (67.5)

13 (32.5)

61 (75.3)

20 (24.7)

25 (56.8)

19 (43.2)

0.103

Male sex

78 (47.3%)

15 (37.5%)

40 (49.4%)

23 (52.3%)

0.347

HIV infected

18 (10.9%)

4 (10.0%)

6 (7.4%)

8 (18.2%)

0.178

Started on TB treatment

121 (73.3%)

40 (100%)

81 (100%)

0 (0%)

<0.001

Tuberculin skin test positivea

84 (61.3%)

24 (75.0%)

52 (76.5%)

8 (21.6%)

<0.001

  1. aTuberculin skin test results available for a subset of the study population (N = 137).
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