Figure 1

Cough duration (day) of patients infected with Beijing and non-Beijing strains. Cough durations of the pulmonary tuberculosis patients before diagnosis were compared by Beijing and non-Beijing groups. Patients infected with Beijing strains had significantly longer cough (median, 60 days) compared to those infected with non-Beijing strains (median, 30 days). Two patients in the Beijing group who had 4-year long cough before the diagnosis are expressed as > 300 days. The two groups differed significantly in the duration of cough (p = 0.048).