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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 24.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Mycobacteriol. 2021 Oct-Dec;10(4):437–441. doi: 10.4103/ijmy.ijmy_181_21

Table 4:

Predictors of TB infection in Bahir Dar, northwest, Ethiopian from January 1, 2015 – December 30, 2019

Variables TB status P 95% CI (COR) P 95% CI (AOR)
PTB EPTB
HIV
 Negative 1166 1596 1 1
 Positive 305 1201 0.01* 2.9–2.5 (3.4) 0.01** 1.9–1.6 (2.3)
Sex
 Female 973 1499 1 1
 Male 498 1305 0.01* 1.7–1.5 (1.9) 0.01** 1.7–1.4 (2.2)
Age
 <15 196 641 0.01* 1.4–1.2 (1.7) 0.01** 1.4–1.1 (1.7)
 15–34 656 1545 1 1
 35–44 162 249 0.01 0.7–0.5 (0.8) 0.01 0.4–0.3 (0.5)
 45–65 192 314 0.01 0.7–0.6 (0.9) 0.01 0.6–0.4 (0.8)
 >65 265 55 0.01 0.09–0.11 (0.12) 0.01 0.13–0.11 (0.22)
*

significance AT P-value ≤0∙20;

**

significance at P-value <0∙05

TB: Tuberculosis, PTB: Pulmonary TB, EPTB: Extra PTB, CI: Confidence interval, COR: Crude odds ratio, AOR: Adjusted odds ratio