Table 4. Epidemiological characteristics and HIV-status in relation to the different sites of extrapulmonary tuberculosis, Bénin, 2011.
| Characteristics | Total | Pleural effusion | Spine | Lymph node | Bone/Joint | Ascites | Other * | Not recorded | |
| Sex | Male | 216 | 58 (26.9) | 39 (18.1) | 42 (19.4) | 16 (7.4) | 8 (3.7) | 12 (5.6) | 41 (19) |
| Female | 167 | 36 (21.6) | 43 (25.7) | 35 (21) | 13 (7.8) | 7 (4.2) | 5 (3) | 28 (16.8) | |
| Age (Years) | <15 | 62 | 3 (4.8) | 12 (19.4) | 24 (38.7) | 8 (12.9) | 2 (3.2) | 1 (1.6) | 12 (19.4) |
| ≥15 | 321 | 91 (28.3) | 70 (21.8) | 53 (16.5) | 21 (6.5) | 13 (4) | 16 (5) | 57 (17.8) | |
| Region | Atacora | 18 | 1 (5.6) | 3 (16.7) | 5 (27.8) | 0 (0) | 1 (5.6) | 1 (5.6) | 7 (38.9) |
| Borgou | 58 | 10 (17.2) | 19 (32.8) | 10 (17.2) | 8 (13.8) | 2 (3.4) | 2 (3.4) | 7 (12.1) | |
| Zou | 70 | 8 (11.4) | 18 (25.7) | 24 (34.3) | 14 (20) | 1 (1.4) | 0 (0) | 5 (7.1) | |
| Mono | 51 | 3 (5.9) | 9 (17.6) | 3 (5.9) | 3 (5.9) | 2 (3.9) | 1 (2) | 30 (58.8) | |
| Atlantique | 146 | 69 (47.3) | 27 (18.5) | 23 (15.8) | 1 (0.7) | 8 (5.5) | 12 (8.2) | 6 (4.1) | |
| Ouémé | 40 | 3 (7.5) | 6 (15) | 12 (30) | 3 (7.5) | 1 (2.5) | 1 (2.5) | 14 (35) | |
| HIV-Status | Positive | 72 | 29 (40.3) | 4 (5.6) | 15 (20.8) | 0 (0) | 5 (6.9) | 3 (4.2) | 16 (22.2) |
| Negative | 306 | 65 (21.2) | 74 (24.2) | 61 (19.9) | 29 (100) | 10 (3.3) | 14 (4.6) | 53 (17.3) | |
| Unknown | 5 | 0 (0) | 4 (80) | 1 (20) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | |
| Total | 383 | 94 | 82 | 77 | 29 | 15 | 17 | 69 |
Note: * Others include pericardial TB (n = 10), cerebral TB (n = 1), meningeal TB (n = 1), female genital track TB (n = 1), male genital track TB (n = 3), skin TB (n = 1).
TB: Tuberculosis.