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. 2017 Feb 2;12(2):e0171310. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171310

Table 7. Treatment outcomes of TB patients by target population.

Type of TB Treatment outcomes Rural poor Urban poor Prison inmates Indigenous population High school students Total
N = 252 (%) N = 23 (%) N = 300 (%) N = 57 (%) N = 4 (%) N = 636 (%)
Rifampicin-susceptible TB Number of cohort 249 21 285 53 4 612
Treatment success 215 (86.3%) 20 (95.2%) 263 (92.3%) 46 (86.8%) 4 (100.0%) 548 (89.5%)
- Cured 136 (54.6%) 6 (28.6%) 243 (85.3%) 27 (50.9%) 4 (100.0%) 416 (68.0%)
- Completed 79 (31.7%) 14 (66.7%) 20 (7.0%) 19 (35.8%) 0 (0.0%) 132 (21.6%)
Died 5 (2.0%) 1 (4.8%) 4 (1.4%) 1 (1.9%) 0 (0.0%) 11 (1.8%)
Failure 3 (1.2%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (1.1%) 1 (1.9%) 0 (0.0%) 7 (1.1%)
Loss to follow-up 16 (6.4%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 4 (7.5%) 0 (0.0%) 20 (3.3%)
Transfer-out 10 (4.0%) 0 (0.0%) 15 (5.3%) 1 (1.9%) 0 (0.0%) 26 (4.2%)
Rifampicin-resistant TB Number of cohort 3 2 15 4 0 24
Treatment success 1 (33.3%) 1 (50.0%) 14 (93.3%) 4 (100.0%) 0 (0.0%) 20 (83.3%)
- Cured 0 (0.0%) 1 (50.0%) 2 (13.3%) 3 (75.0%) 0 (0.0%) 6 (25.0%)
- Completed 1 (33.3%) 0 (0.0%) 12 (80.0%) 1 (25.0%) 0 (0.0%) 14 (58.3%)
Died 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (6.7%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 1 (4.2%)
Failure 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Loss to follow-up 2 (66.7%) 1 (50.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 3 (12.5%)
Transfer-out 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)