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Table 1 Baseline features of the study patients and controls

From: Differential in vivo expression of mycobacterial antigens in Mycobacterium tuberculosisinfected lungs and lymph node tissues

 

TB cases

Controls

Age group

  

Children (2–14 years)

6

0

Adults (18–86 years)

14

12

Gender

  

Male

12

6

Female

8

6

Origin of biopsies

  

Lung tissues from pulmonary TB with many AFBs

3

 

Cervical lymph nodes

13

 

Axillary lymph nodes

2

 

Mesenteric lymph nodes

1

 

Inguinal lymph nodes

1

 

Foreign-body granulomas of the skin

 

9

Colon cancer

 

1

Normal tonsillar tissue

 

1

Lung tissues from autopsy of ischemic heart disease

 

1