TABLE 3.
Age of patients and rate of clusteringa
| Age (yr) | No. of clustered patients/total no. of patients (%)
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| All
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With the following type of TB:
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| Pulmonary
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Pleural
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Other extrapulmonary
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| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| <21 | 15/31 (48.3) | 5/14 (35.7) | 6/12 (50) | 3/7 (42.8) | 3/10 (30) | 1/5 (20) | 6/9 (66.6) | 1/2 (50) |
| 21-30 | 31/66 (46.9) | 24/42 (57) | 19/41 (46.3) | 13/26 (50) | 10/22 (45.4) | 8/11 (72.7) | 2/3 (66.6) | 3/5 (60) |
| 31-40 | 33/60 (55) | 21/28 (75) | 16/30 (53.3) | 17/19 (89.4) | 16/27 (59.2) | 1/4 (25) | 1/3 (33.3) | 3/5 (60) |
| 41-50 | 13/28 (46.4) | 5/9 (55.5) | 6/12 (50) | 3/3 (100) | 6/13 (46.1) | 2/6 (33.3) | 1/3 (33.3) | 0 |
| >50 | 11/28 (39.3) | 9/10 (90) | 2/10 (20) | 4/5 (80) | 9/17 (52.9) | 3/3 (100) | 0/1 (0) | 2/2 (100) |
a
P values for male and female patients, respectively, were as follows: all, 0.72 and 0.039; with PTB, 0.47 and 0.022; with pleural TB, 0.58 and 0.068; and with other EPTB, 0.56 and 0.71 (comparison of rates of clustering in different age groups).