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. 2014 Dec 8;9(12):e113095. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113095

Table 2. Diagnoses of HIV-infected patients stratified by outcome.

Clinical condition Deceased Discharged OR (95% CI) P-value
(n = 57) (n = 236)
Presumptive tuberculosis 26 (46) 67 (28) 2.1 (1.1–3.9) 0.02
Presumptive Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia 15 (26) 8 (3) 10.2 (3.8–28.2) <0.001
Presumptive histoplasmosis 12 (21) 9 (4) 6.7 (2.5–18.6) <0.001
Presumptive oesophasial candidiasis 15 (26) 12 (5) 6.7 (2.7–16.5) <0.001
Malignancy * 5 (9) 6 (3) 3.7 (0.9–14.3) 0.04
Presumptive Cytomegalovirus infection 4 (7) 11 (5) 1.5 (0.4–5.5) 0.5
Presumptive Cerebral Toxoplasmosis 2 (4) 1 (1) 8.6 (0.5–242.6) 0.09
Presumptive Cryptococcal meningitis 1 (2) 5 (2) 0.48
Herpes viral infection (H. simplex & H. zoster) 0 8 (3) 0.36
Bacteremia 21 (37) 22 (9) 5.7 (2.7–12.0) <0.001
Isolation of multiple organisms in blood 5 (9) 1 (1) 22.6 (2.5–522.1) <0.001
Bacteriuria 21 (38) 43 (18) 2.7 (1.4–5.3) 0.003

*Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (4 cases), central nervous system tumors (2 cases), and Kaposi's sarcoma (1 case), mediastinal sarcoma (1 case), cervical cancer (1 case), carcinoma of the tongue (1 case) and adenocarcinoma of the colon (1 case).

Figures represent n (%), unless specified. OR: odds ratio. CI: confidence interval. IQR: interquartile range.