Table 3.
Drug resistance patterns among different types of tuberculosis patients
| Type of disease | DST | Drug resistance | MDR-TB | Type of disease | DST | Drug resistance | p value | MDR-TB | p value | |
| No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | (no.) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | ||||
| S+ C+ (269) | 269 (89.37) | 151 (89.34) | 0.99 | 92 (88.46) | 0.636 | |||||
| S- C+ (32) | 32 (10.63) | 18 (10.65) | 12 (11.53) | |||||||
| HIV+ S+ C+ | 15 (4.98) | 14 (8.28) | 5 (4.81) | Total (301) | 301 | 169 | 104 | |||
| HIV+ C+ | 3 (0.99) | 2 (1.18) | 1 (0.96) | HIV- C+ (32) | 32 (10.88) | 26 (15.85) | 0.002 | 10 (10.00) | 0.009 | |
| HIV+X-ray+ C+ | 13 (4.32) | 9 (5.32) | 3 (2.88) | HIV- C+ (262) | 262 (89.12) | 138 (84.15) | 90 (90.00) | |||
| HIV+ diabetes+ | 1 (0.33) | 1 (0.59) | 1 (0.96) | (excluded diabetic cases) | ||||||
| X-ray+ S+ C+ | Total (294) | 294 | 164 | 100 | ||||||
| Diabetes+ S+ C+ | 7 (2.32) | 5 (2.95) | 4 (3.85) | |||||||
| X-ray+ S+ C+ | 16 (5.32) | 11 (6.51) | 10 (9.6) | Diabetic+ C+ (8) | 8 (2.96) | 6 (4.17) | 5 (5.26) | |||
| X-ray+ S- C+ | 16 (5.32) | 7 (4.14) | 8 (7.69) | Non-diabetic+ | ||||||
| S+C+ | 230 (76.41) | 120 (71.01) | 72 (69.23) | C+ (262) (excluded HIV cases) | 262 (97.04) | 138 (95.83) | 0.208 | 90 (94.74) | 0.961 | |
| Total (270) | 270 | 144 | 95 |
S+=Smear-positive;
C+=Culture-positive;
DST=Drug-susceptibility testing, MDR=Multidrug-resistant;
S-=Smear-negative