Table 5. Eradication rates after one or two cycles of therapy, stratified by class of pathogen and test.
| Test | Traditional uropathogens |
Unusual pathogens |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Five-glass | Four-glass | Two-glass | Five-glass | Four-glass | Two-glass | |
| Eradication after 1 cycle of treatment (%) | 90 (75) | 27 (81.8) | 17 (85) | 105 (80.7) | 46 (82.1) | 37 (82.2) |
| Eradication after 2 cycles of treatment (% of persistent cases) | 22 (73.3) | 5 (83.3) | 3 (100) | 21 (84) | 9 (100) | 7 (100) |
| Total eradicated patients (% of total patients) | 112 (93.3) | 32 (96.9) | 20 (100) | 126 (96.9) | 55 (98.2) | 44 (97.7) |
| Total patients | 120 | 33 | 20 | 130 | 56 | 45 |
| χ2 | 0.018a | 0.005b | 0.04c | 0.003a | 0.001b | 0.002c |
| P-value | 0.89a | 0.93b | 0.84c | 0.95a | 0.97b | 0.98c |
a
Five-glass vs. four-glass.
b
Four-glass vs. two-glass.
c
Five-glass vs. two-glass.