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Prevalence of cryptococcal antigen detection and blood culture in terms of CD4+ T-cell count.
| CD4+ T-cell count | Cryptococcal antigen |
Culture |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive (%) | Negative (%) | Positive (%) | Negative (%) | Total | |
| ≤150 | 29 (70.7) | 12 (29.3) | 11 (26.8) | 30 (73.2) | 41 |
| >150 | 30 (11.6) | 229 (88.4) | 5 (1.9) | 254 (98.1) | 259 |
| Total | 59 (19.7) | 241 (80.3) | 16 (5.3) | 284 (94.7) | 300 |
Cryptococcal antigen: χ2=78.38, P<0.0001; Blood culture: χ2=43.46, P<0.0001.
