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. 2017 Jun 13;15:105. doi: 10.1186/s12916-017-0864-y

Table 3.

Culture and smear status by age group in household transmitters and all other cases

Household transmitters All other cases (non-household transmitters)
Culture positive Smear positive Culture positive Smear positive
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Age
0–14 29 (42.0) 16 (23.2) 265 (25.0) 58 (5.5)
15–24 120 (84.5) 79 (55.6) 2422 (68.6) 741 (21.0)
25–44 201 (88.5) 132 (58.1) 6806 (62.7) 1568 (14.5)
45–64 77 (92.8) 53 (63.9) 2732 (55.7) 765 (15.6)
65+ 26 (96.3) 15 (55.6) 1846 (58.2) 456 (14.4)
Total 453 (92.7) 295 (53.8) 14,071 (59.8) 3588 (15.3)