Table 1.

Comparison of culture-confirmed cases of pulmonary tuberculosis by HIV infection status: symptoms, signs and chest X-ray findings

	HIV- positive		HIV- negative
Symptoms	n	%	n	%	P value
N	873		1141
Cough >3 weeks	841	96	1091	96	0.713
Duration of cough, mean, days	99.22		112.81		0.001
Subjective fever	651	75	737	65	<0.001
Sweats	582	67	669	59	<0.001
Weight loss (subjective)	705	81	823	72	<0.001
Malaise	159	18	150	13	0.002
Arthralgias	146	17	133	12	0.001
Hemoptysis	63	7	126	11	0.003
Loss of appetite	574	66	544	48	<0.001
Diarrhea	59	7	29	3	<0.001
Productive sputum	813	93	1072	94	0.068
Signs
Temperature >37.5°C	321	37	363	32	0.019
Abnormal chest examination	630	72	898	79	<0.001
Abnormal lymph node exam	252	29	142	12	<0.001
Oral thrush	22	3	3	0	0.031
AFB smear-positive	734	84	1075	94	<0.001
Chest X-ray	(n = 848)		(n = 1085)
Normal X-ray	71	8	26	2	<0.001
Cavitary disease	338	40	705	65	<0.001
Miliary pattern	35	4	21	2	0.004
Fibrosis	42	5	102	9	<0.001
Adenopathy	62	7	21	2	<0.001
Pleural effusion	73	9	67	6	0.04
Upper lobe disease	622	73	953	88	<0.001
Lower lobe disease	571	67	863	80	<0.001

HIV = human immunodeficiency virus; AFB = acid-fast bacilli.