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. 2010 May 20;5(5):e10753. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010753

Table 2. The association between week-8 culture positivity and M. tuberculosis lineage, adjusted for clinical risk factors from the parent study.

Characteristic Positive week-8 culture[n (row %)] Univariate Analysis Multivariate Analysis
p-value OR (95% CI) p-value OR (95% CI)
Moxifloxacin (n = 152) 56 (37) 0.19 0.74 (0.47–1.17) 0.23 0.73 (0.43–1.22)
Assignment stratum
Non-African/non-cavitary (n = 32) 2 (6.3) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Non-African/cavitary (n = 82) 27 (33) <0.01 7.36 (1.64–33.1) 0.02 5.93 (1.25–28.1)
African/non-cavitary (n = 47) 21 (45) <0.01 12.1 (2.59–56.6) 0.01 7.61 (1.43–40.5)
African/cavitary (n = 145) 74 (51) <0.01 15.6 (3.60–67.8) <0.01 9.86 (1.99–48.9)
Age at enrollment (per year) * 33 (12) 0.95 1.00 (0.98–1.02) 0.06 1.03 (1.00–1.06)
High bacillary burden on baseline sputum smear (n = 205) * 100 (49) <0.01 3.06 (1.79–5.21) 0.03 2.02 (1.09–3.76)
Days to detection in liquid culture system for baseline specimen * 7.1 (4.8) <0.01 0.92 (0.87–0.96) 0.02 0.94 (0.90–0.99)
Lineage
Euro-American – other than 724 (n = 145) 46 (32) 1.00 (ref) 1.00 (ref)
Euro-American – 724 (n = 101) 53 (52) <0.01 2.38 (1.41–4.01) 0.12 1.70 (0.88–3.30)
East-African-Indian (n = 26) 11 (42) 0.29 1.58 (0.67–3.70) 0.91 0.95 (0.35–2.54)
East Asian (n = 22) 13 (59) 0.02 3.11 (1.24–7.79) 0.30 1.79 (0.60–5.37)
Indo-Oceanic (n = 11) 1 (9.1) 0.15 0.22 (0.03–1.73) 0.27 0.29 (0.03–2.58)

*Mean and standard deviation reported for continuous data.