Table 1 General demographics of study participants.

From: Evaluating anti-GPL-core IgA as a diagnostic tool for non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in Thai patients with high antibody background

 

NTM-PD

(n = 20)

dNTM

(n = 22)

MTB-PD

(n = 14)

Oth-PD

(n = 32)

HC

(n = 25)

Median of age in years (IQR)

60 (34–81)

54 (40–72)

47 (18–67)*

62 (38–86)*

53 (23–70)

Number of females (%)

14/20 (70.0%)

9/22 (40.1%)**

5/14 (35.7%)**

13/32 (40.6%)**

16/25 (64%)

Number of anti-IFN-γ auAb positive titer (%)

0/20 (0%)

22/22 (100%)

0/14 (0%)

0/40 (0%)

0/25 (0%)

Culture positive organism (%)

M. abscessus complex (8/20, 40%)

M. intracellulare (3/20, 15%)

M. scrofulaceum (2/20, 10%)

M. avium (1/20, 5%)

M. malmoense (1/20, 5%)

M. simiae (1/20, 5%)

M. szulgai (1/20, 5%)

Rapidly glowing mycobacteria (1/20, 5%)

Unidentified NTM (1/20, 5%)

M. abscessus (15/22, 68.2%)

M. intracellulare (4/22, 18.2%)

M. kansasii (1/22, 4.5%%)

Unidentified NTM (2/22, 9.1%)

M. tuberculosis (14/14, 100%)

K. pneumoniae (11/32, 34.4%)

E. coli (10/32, 31.3%)

P. aeruginosa (7/32, 21.9%)

B. pseudomallei (1/32, 3.1%)

E. coli and K. pneumoniae (2/32, 6.3%)

K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa (1/32, 3.1%)

Not determined

  1. NTM-PD: non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease; dNTM: disseminated non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection; MTB-PD: Mycobacterium tuberculosis pulmonary disease; Oth-PD: other bacterial pulmonary disease; HC: healthy control.
  2. *P-value = 0.0097 by Kruskal–Wallis test.
  3. **P-value less than 0.05 by Chi-square test.
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