Table 2.
Clinical characteristics of the 273 patients with smear-positive tuberculosis
| City | Patients with tuberculosis, n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Taiz, n (%) | Alhodidah, n (%) | ||
| Number of clinical symptoms | |||
| ≤ 2 | 29 (53.7) | 25 (46.3) | 54 (19.8) |
| 3–4 | 50 (55.6) | 40 (44.4) | 90 (33) |
| ≥ 5 | 66 (51.2) | 63 (48.8) | 129 (47.3) |
| Cough history | |||
| < 3 weeks | 37 (82.2) | 8 (17.8) | 45 (16.2) |
| ≥ 3 weeks | 108 (47.4) | 120 (52.6) | 228 (83.5) |
| Radiography lesions | |||
| Unilateral | 92 (55.1) | 75 (44.9) | 167 (61.2) |
| Bilateral | 52 (53.1) | 46 (46.9) | 98 (35.9) |
| No test performed | 1 (12.5) | 7 (87.5) | 8 (2.9) |
| Lung cavitation | |||
| No cavities | 42 (72.4) | 16 (27.6) | 58 (21.2) |
| One | 57 (50) | 57 (50) | 114 (41.8) |
| Two | 34 (48.6) | 36 (51.4) | 70 (25.6) |
| Three or more | 11 (47.8) | 12 (52.2) | 23 (8.4) |
| No test performed | 1 (12.5) | 7 (87.5) | 8 (2.9) |
| Comorbidity | |||
| Yes | 19 (43.2) | 25 (56.8) | 44 (16.1) |
| No | 126 (55) | 103 (45) | 229 (83.9) |