Table 9. p values of multiple comparisons among tests evaluating sensitivity for active TB in active pulmonary TB patients (as reported in Table 6) in all patients with or without HIV-infection.

	Single test					Combined tests
	TST	QFT-GIT	SM		TST+QFT-GIT	TST+SM	QFT-GIT+SM	QFT-GIT+SM+TST
TST	NA	0.20	0.69		0.04	0.08	0.005 **	0.0021 **
QFT-GIT	–	NA	0.06		0.63	0.81	0.20	0.11
SM	–	–	NA		0.009*	0.02	0.0008 **	0.0003 **
TST+QFT-GIT	–	–	–		–	–	–	0.39
TST+SM	–	–	–		–	–	–	0.26
QFT-GIT+SM	–	–	–		–	–	–	1

Footnote: HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; TB: tuberculosis; TST (Tuberculin skin test); QFT-GIT: QuantiFERON® Gold in Tube (indeterminate results included as negative results; SM: smear microscopy.

^*Significant after Bonferroni correction for 5 multiple comparison, p value≤0.01;

^**significant after Bonferroni correction for 7 multiple comparison, p value≤0.007.