TABLE 2.

Patient characteristics and drug resistance patterns for M. tuberculosis clinical isolates

Characteristic	Culture-positive patients (n = 220)	N-typed isolates (n = 191)	Molecular typing results (n = 191)
			Unclustered (n = 79)	Clustered by:
				Spoligotyping alone (n = 112)	Spoligotyping and VNTR analysis (n = 45)
Sex ratioa	1	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.4
No. (%) of patients of the following age (yr):
1-14	9 (4.2)b	7 (3.7)	5 (6.3)	2 (1.8)	1 (2.2)
15-39	98 (45.4)	85 (45.0)	27 (34.2)	58 (52.7)	22 (48.9)
40-64	43 (19.9)	40 (21.2)	15 (19)	25 (22.7)	10 (22.2)
≥65	66 (30.5)	57 (30.1)	32 (40.5)	25 (22.7)	12 (26.7)
Unknown	4 (1.8)	2 (1.1)	0	2 (1.8)	0
No. (%) of patient isolates with drug resistance
Total drug resistance	19 (9.0)	15 (7.8)	2 (2.5)	13 (11.7)c	3 (6.7)
Resistance data not available	7 (3.2)	1 (0.5)	0	1 (0.9)	0
Resistance to one drug	15 (7.0)	12 (6.3)	1 (1.3)	11 (9.9)	3 (6.7)
No. of men/no. of women	7/8	5/7	0/1	5/6	1/2
Resistance to two or more drugs	4 (1.9)	3 (1.6)	1 (1.3)	2 (1.8)	0
No. of men/no. of women	0/4	0/3	0/1	0/2

^aNumber of males/number of females.

^bNote that for all percentages calculations did not take into account patients for whom characteristics (age or drug resistance data) were unknown.

^cP = 0.017.