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. 2012 Aug 24;7(8):e43739. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043739

Table 3. Respective proportion of patients classified as microbiologically documented and clinical tuberculosis according to disease localization and HIV-status.

Pulmonary TB Extrapulmonary TB
HIV-infected HIV-uninfected HIV-unknown Total HIV-infected HIV-uninfected HIV-unknown Total
(n = 93)(n = 270)(n = 293)(n = 656) (n = 38)(n = 46)(n = 67)(n = 151)
Percentage (95% CI) Percentage (95% CI)
Documented 61.3 (50.6–71.2) 84.1 (79.2–88.2) 83.6 (78.8–87.7) 80.5 (77.3–83.5) 47.4 (31.0–64.2) 63.0 (47.6–76.8) 41.8 (29.9–54.5) 49.7 (41.1–57.9)
Clinical 38.7 (a)(28.8–49.4) 15.9 (11.8–20.9) 16.4 (12.3–21.1) 19.5 (16.5–22.7) 52.6 (35.8–69.0) 37.0 (b)(23.2–52.5) 58.2 (45.5–70.2) 50.3 (a)(42.1–58.6)

TB: tuberculosis; HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; CI: confidence interval.

(a)

p<0.0001;

(b)

p = 0.03; TB: tuberculosis.