Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of patients with autoantibody-positive and autoantibody-negative tuberculosis

	Autoantibody-positive (n=32)	Autoantibody-negative (n=68)	p Value
Respiratory symptoms	22 (69)	46 (68)	0.912
Cough	9 (28)	16 (23)	0.621
Sputum	4 (13)	13 (19)	0.411
Haemoptysis	2 (6)	3 (4)	0.654
Dyspnoea	5 (16)	10 (15)	>0.999
Chest pain	2 (6)	4 (6)	>0.999
Constitutional symptoms	14 (44)	21 (31)	0.208
Fever	5 (16)	9 (13)	0.763
Weight loss	4 (13)	6 (9)	0.722
General malaise	3 (9)	3 (4)	0.381
Night sweating	2 (6)	3 (4)	0.654
Sputum smear grading
3+ ∼ 4+	2 (6)	8 (12)	0.495
1+ ∼ 2+	6 (19)	15 (22)	0.705
Negative	24 (69)	45 (66)	0.373
Serum albumin <3.5 g/dL	6 (19)	7 (10)	0.339
Radiographic findings
Bilateral infiltration	10 (31)	34 (50)	0.078
Cavitations	1 (3)	8 (12)	0.265
Pleural effusion	5 (16)	11 (16)	0.944
Miliary lesion	0	3 (4)	0.549

Data are number (%).