Table 2 Overall yield of mycobacterial blood cultures for diagnosis of drug-susceptible, multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis (TB)
n (%) | |
|---|---|
Blood culture result (n = 130): | |
M. tuberculosis | 41 (32) |
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria | 3 (2) |
Cryptococcus sp. | 3 (2) |
Othera | 5 (4) |
Negative | 78 (60) |
Drug-susceptibility results among M. tuberculosis isolates (n = 41): | |
XDR-TB | 20 (49) |
MDR-TBb | 8 (20) |
Drug-susceptible | 10 (24) |
Incompletec | 3 (7) |