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Table 1 Characteristics of study subjects

From: Infrequent detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii by PCR in oral wash specimens from TB patients with or without HIV and healthy contacts in Tanzania

Characteristics

All

HIV positive patients

HIV negative patients

Household contacts

Neighborhood controls

Number of study subjects

484

205

179

51

49

Female (%)

220 (45.5)

99 (48.3)

64 (36.0)

33 (64.7)

24 (49.0)

Age median (range)

33 (15-89)

34 (19-70)

32 (15-89)

32 (18-86)

33 (16-55)

   Males

36 (15-89)

37 (23-70)

35 (15-89)

36 (18-60)

32 (16-55)

   Females

32 (16-86)

32 (19-60)

30 (18-77)

30 (18-86)

33 (16-55)

HIV positive (%)

213 (44.0)

205 (100)

0

6 (11.8)

2 (4.1)

TB positive (%)

250 (65.1)

118 (57.6)

132 (73.7)

-

-

CD4* median (range)

340 (21-2117)

208 (21-926)

387 (49-1609)

622 (146-1714)

465 (180-2117)

CD4* < 200 (%)

112 (23.1)

94 (45.9)

15 (8.4)

1 (2.0)

2 (4.1)

Receiving presumptive antibiotic treatment (%)

175 (46.5)

98 (49.0)

77 (43.8)

-

-

Receiving presumptive curative TMX**(%)

45 (12.3)

35 (17.8)

10 (5.9)

-

-

Receiving prophylactic TMX**1 (%)

57 (57.6)

57 (57.6)

-

-

-

  1. All: Information on sex was missing for 1 patient, age was missing for 1 patient, information on presumptive antibiotic treatment was missing for 8 patients, information on presumptive curative TMX missing for 10 patients.
  2. HIV positive: information on presumptive antibiotic treatment was missing for 5 patients. Information on presumptive curative TMX was missing for 3 patients.
  3. HIV negative: age missing for 1 patient, sex missing for 1 patient. Information regarding presumptive antibiotic treatment was missing for 3 patients, information on presumptive curative TMX missing for 7 patients.
  4. *CD4, number of CD4 cells per mm3. **TMX: cotrimoxazole
  5. 1 Number of patients receiving prophylactic TMX out of all patients known HIV positive before study entry.