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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Infect. 2020 Feb 22;80(5):536–546. doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.02.009

Table 1.

Demographic, epidemiological and clinical features of the enrolled patients.

HIV-infected patients
HIV-uninfected patients
HIV-TB HIV-LTBI HIV-Low TB risk TOTAL P TB LTBI recent LTBI remote Low TB risk TOTAL P

N 32 45 90 167 170 76 34 18 298
Sex male, N (%) 24 (75.0) 39 (86.7) 74 (82.2) 137 (82.0) 0.448* 100 (58.8) 37 (48.7) 14 (41.2) 8 (44.4) 159 (53.4) #0.148
Age, median (IQR) 40 (32–51) 36 (27–41) 37 (29–49) 37 (28–48) 0.185§ 37 (29–47) 39(25–54) 44 (32–56) 39 (33–46) 38 (28–49) §0.461
BCG-vaccinated, N (%) 23 (71.9) 35 (77.8) 19 (21.1) 77 (46.1) <0.001* 116 (68.2) 38 (50.0) 15 (44.1) 1 (5.5) 170 (57.0) #<0.001
TB diagnosis, N (%)
Microbiological confirmation 25 (78) - - - - 132 (78) - - - -
Clinical diagnosis 5(16) - - - - 38 (22) - - - -
ART, N (%) 18 (56.2) 28 (62.2) 27 (30.0) 73 (43.7) <0.001* - - - - -
HIV RNA loglO copies/ml, median (IQR) 4.91 1.84 4.65 4.47 <0.001* - - - - -
(3.60–5.41) (1.59–4.29) (3.92–5.26) (2.22–5.18)
CD4 /mm3, Median (IQR) + 124 (52–279) 626 418 417 <0.001* - - - - -
(418–860) (253 −631) (208–646)
Origin, N (%) <0.001* *<0.001
West Europe 9 (28.1) 10 (22.2) 71 (78.9) 90 (53.9) 55 (32.3) 39 (51.3) 19 (55.9) 18 (100) 131 (44.0)
East Europe 7 (21.9) 6 (13.3) 7 (7.8) 20 (12.0) 65 (38.2) 21 (27.6) 8 (23.5) 0 94 (31.5)
Asia 1 (3.1) 2 (4.4) 0 3 (1.8) 23 (13.5) 8 (10.5) 2 (5.9) 0 33 (11.1)
Africa 8 (25.0) 7 (15.6) 4 (4.4) 19 (11.4) 14 (8.4) 5 (6.7) 5 (14.7) 0 24 (8.0)
South America 7 (21.9) 20 (44.4) 8 (8.9) 35 (21.0) 13 (7.6) 3 (3.9) 0(0) 0 16 (5.4)

TB: tuberculosis; BCG: Bacillus Calmette et Guérin; N: number; IQR: interquartile range.

§

Kruskal Wallis.

#

Fisher test.

*

Chi Square test.

+

CD4 count is not available for 5 patients (1 HIV-TB, 3 HIV-LTBI, 1 HIV-Low TB risk).