Table 3. Macroscopic appearance of sample, by sex, age group and by individuals reporting cough or not.
| Variable | Macroscopic appearance of sample |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morning sample |
Spot sample |
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| Sputum | Saliva | Sputum | Saliva | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Males | 1 130 (32.8) | 4 373 (33.7) | 555 (35.1) | 4 815 (32.8) | |
| Females | 2 313 (67.2) | 8 594 (66.3) | 1 027 (64.9) | 9 865 (67.2) | |
| Age | |||||
| 15–29 years | 1 448 (42.1) | 5 288 (40.8) | 633 (40.0) | 6 018 (41.0) | |
| 30–59 years | 1 412 (41.0) | 5 491 (42.3) | 650 (41.1) | 6 178 (42.1) | |
| ≥ 60 years | 583 (16.9) | 2 188 (16.9) | 299 (18.9) | 2 484 (16.9) | |
| Reported cougha | |||||
| Yes | 377 (11.0) | 1 498 (11.6) | 164 (10.4) | 1 734 (11.8) | |
| No | 3 065 (89.0) | 11 461 (88.4) | 1 417 (89.6) | 12 937 (88.2) | |
a For 19 samples, information about reported cough in the patient was missing.