. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 24.

Published in final edited form as: Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2012 Mar 10;92(3):243–247. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2012.02.004

Table 2.

Sensitivity of anti-lipid IgM level decrease after 8 weeks of treatment among non-cavitary TB patients^a as a marker of favorable treatment response.

	Decrease in IgM	Sensitivity %
CL	14/15	93.3
PE	10/15	66.7
PI	12/15	80.0
PTC	14/15	93.3
SL	12/15	80.0

Number of non-cavitary TB patients who showed a decrease in IgM anti-phospholipid antibody levels. Values for sensitivity were determined for each lipid by contingency table analysis. Multidrug resistant TB patients were excluded. Cardiolipin (CL); phosphatidyl ethanolamine (PE); phosphatidyl Inositol (PI); phosphatidyl choline (PTC); sphingolipid (SL).