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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2012 Jul 19;17(9):1108–1116. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03041.x

Table 2.

Differences in proportions between pediatric TB-only, TB/HIV, and TB/ART patients under age 15

HIV-Negative HIV-Positive
TB TB/HIV TB/ART All children
N=190 (56.2) n=133 (39.4) N=15 (4.44) N=338
% # % # % # % #
Patient category (337)
New 96.8 184 91.7 122 85.7 12 94.4 318
Relapse 0.5 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.3 1
RAD 0.5 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.3 1
Failure 0.5 1 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.3 1
Other 1.6 3 8.3 11 14.3 2 4.8 16

TB Classification (299)***
EPTB 20.7 35 14.7 17 14.3 2 18.1 54
Smear-negative PTB 61.5 104 81.0 94 78.6 11 69.9 209
Smear-positive PTB 17.8 30 4.3 5 7.1 1 12.0 36

TB treatment (158)
RHZE 98.0 93 100 52 100 11 98.7 156
Isoniazid 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 1.3 2

Age group*
<5 31.6 60 27.1 36 20 3 29.3 99
>=5 & <15 68.4 130 72.9 97 80.0 12 70.7 239

Gender
Male 50.0 95 47.4 63 66.7 10 49.7 168
Female 50.0 95 52.6 70 33.3 5 50.3 170

Registration year
2008 41.6 79 51.9 69 20.0 3 44.7 151
2009 21.1 40 20.3 27 33.3 5 21.3 72
2010 37.4 71 27.8 37 46.7 7 34.0 115
*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001. Parentheses are used to show N for categories with missing data.