Table 2.
Stratification of TB positive patients based on age, HIV status, glycosuria, drug-resistance, sputum smear grading, clinical manifestations, and geographic region.
| TB positive patients | No. |
|---|---|
| Adults | 200 |
| Pediatric | 19 |
| HIV | |
| Positive | 55 |
| Negative | 164 |
| Glycosuria | |
| positive | 24 |
| negative | 195 |
| Geographic area | |
| Peru | 80 |
| Guinea Bissau | 17 |
| Uganda | 97 |
| Venezuela | 25 |
| Pleural biopsy acid fast bacilli positive | 19 |
| Ziehl-Neelsen sputum smear microscopy positive | 11 |
| Auramine sputum smear microscopy | |
| 0 | 13 |
| 1 | 22 |
| 2 | 16 |
| 3 | 5 |
| Paucibacillary | 9 |
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolate resistant to | |
| Isoniazid (only) | 2 |
| Multi-drug resistance | 8 |
| Pulmonary TB | 195 |
| Extra-pulmonary TB | 24 |
| Pleural | 19 |
| Laryngeal | 1 |
| Meningoencephalitis | 1 |
| Bone | 1 |
| Ganglionic | 1 |
| PPD negative controls | |
| Symptomatic (joint pain, fever, neurologic impairment, neuropathy, fatigue) | 106 |
| Healthy non-symptomatic | 105 |