Table 1.
Summary of clinical profiles and methods of confirmation by group (N = 183).
| Variablesa | Group 1 | Group 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 84) | 2a (n = 40) | 2b (n = 27) | 2c (n = 32) | p-Valueb | |
| Age | 72.8 ± 5.6 | 72.1 ± 7.7 | 72.4 ± 5.7 | 72.4 ± 5.0 | 0.556 |
| Gender, males (%) | 60 (71.4) | 18 (46.2) | 18 (66.7) | 20 (62.5) | 0.046 |
| Previous PTB | 2 (2.4) | 5 (12.5) | 26 (96.3) | 3 (9.4) | <.001* |
| Cancer history | 8 (9.5) | 0 (0) | 2 (7.4) | 3 (9.4) | 0.240 |
| Anemia | 41 (48.8) | 6 (15.0) | 3 (11.1) | 4 (12.5) | <.001* |
| DM | 32 (38.1) | 12 (30.0) | 9(33.3) | 4 (12.5) | 0.062 |
| Alcoholism | 11 (13.1) | 6 (15.0) | 4 (14.8) | 4 (12.5) | 0.837 |
| Steroid use | 27 (32.1%) | 14 (35.0) | 9 (33.3) | 5 (15.6) | 0.570 |
| Uremia | 12 (14.3) | 7 (17.5) | 4 (14.8) | 6 (18.8) | 0.594 |
| Albumin <3 | 17 (20.2) | 9 (22.5) | 3 (11.1) | 4 (12.5) | 0.475 |
| Sputums– | |||||
| Spontaneous | 70 (83.3) | 21 (52.5) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | <.001* |
| Bronchoscopy (TBLB/washing/brushing) | 19 (22.6) | 19 (47.5) | 27 (100) | 32 (100) | <.001* |
| Lag time of TB smear (days) | 7.49 ± 2.66 | 6.63 ± 3.33 | 9.26 ± 2.88 | 9.34 ± 2.73 | 0.101 |
| Lag time of TB culture (days) | 37.80 ± 7.49 | 45.60 ± 5.47 | 44.48 ± 2.01 | 39.44 ± 5.85 | <.001* |
| Surgical intervention | 1 (1.2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (15.6) | 0.221 |
| Blood culture | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 21 (65.6) | <.001* |
| Urine culture | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 3 (9.4) | 0.251 |
| Pleural effusion culture | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (12.5) | 0.126 |
| Antigen of atypical pneumonia and bacteria | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 8 (8.1) | 0.008* |
| Non-TB pathogen | |||||
| Bacteria | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 24 (22.2) | <.001* |
| Fungus | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.0) | 1.000 |
| Virus | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (1.0) | 1.000 |
| Mycoplasma | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 6 (6.1) | 0.032* |