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Table 3.

Prevalence of tuberculosis according to different occupation groups and other risk factors.

Variables		No. of Studies	Prevalence (%) (95% CI)	I² (%)	H²	Z-Test	Tau²	P-value	Chi-square
Diagnostic method	PCR	08	21 (04–38)	99.47	188.41	2.46	0.058	<0.001	P = 0.808
Diagnostic method	Other than PCR	09	17 (03−31)	99.35	153.33	2.41	0.045	<0.001	P = 0.808
Age	(0–19) years	04	06 (01−11)	32.11	1.473	2.20	8e-04	0.353	P = 0.926
	(20–49) years	05	34 (02–66)	99.19	122.7	2.06	0.133	<0.001
	>50 years	04	21 (06–37)	87.23	7.832	2.80	0.018	<0.001
Occupational group	Farm's worker	08	21 (03–38)	99.67	301.23	2.32	0.061	<0.001	P = 0.563
	Livestock owner	05	28 (06–50)	98.87	88.88	2.51	0.061	<0.001
	Livestock related person	04	12 (05–19)	87.10	7.75	3.45	0.004	<0.001
	Abattoir workers	04	03 (−01–08)	64.46	2.81	1.54	0.001	0.025
Causal agent	Mycobacterium bovis	12	15 (03–26)	99.49	197.84	2.49	0.040	<0.001	P = 0.251
Causal agent	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	07	21 (03–38)	99.06	106.64	2.34	0.053	<0.001	P = 0.251
Sex	Male	07	20 (04–36)	98.61	71.97	2.50	0.0447	<0.001	P = 1.00
Sex	Female	07	23 (−02–47)	99.28	139.54	1.81	0.1081	<0.001	P = 1.00