Table 10. Comparative frequency of positive results of liquid versus solid culture in pulmonary and extrapulmonary active tuberculosis patients according to HIV status.

	Pulmonary TB				Extrapulmonary-TB
	Liquid culture	Solid culture	Total	p value of liquid vs solid cultures*	Liquid culture	Solid culture	Total	p value of liquid vs solid cultures*
	Positive over total (%)				Positive over total (%)
HIV-infected	55/86**	38/87**	56/87**	0.3	14/30	1/33	15/33	0.2
	(64.0)	(43.7)	(64.4)		(46.7)	(30.3)	(45.5 )
HIV-uninfected	218/269**	184/268**	225/270	0.0001	27/46	20/45	29/46	0.2
	(81.0)	(68.7)	(83.3)		(58.7)	(44.4)	(63.0)
HIV-unknown	238/293	164/293	245/293	0.0001	39/67	27/67	39/67	0.03
	(81.2)	(56.0)	(83.6)		(58.2)	(40.3)	(48.2)
Total	511/648	386/648	526/650	0.0001	80/143	57/145	83/146	0.004
	(78.9)	(59.6)	(80.9)		(55.9)	(39.3)	(56.8)

TB: tuberculosis; HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus; CI: confidence interval. *:p value of Comparison. **missing recorded culture;