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Table 2 General characteristics of patients infected with single strain or multiple strains

From: Drug resistance characteristics and cluster analysis of M. tuberculosis in Chinese patients with multiple episodes of anti-tuberculosis treatment

 

Multiple strains

Single strain

P*

 

n = 32

 

n = 134

  

Social-demographic

 Age

50 ± 16.0

 

44 ± 14.3

 

0.063

 Male (Sex)

23

71.9

101

75.4

0.683

 BMI value

21 ± 4.2

19 ± 5.2

0.176

Clinical feature

 SS+

30

93.8

125

93.3

1

 Cavity

19

59.4

50

37.3

0.023**

 Treatment episode > 3

25

78.1

58

43.3

0.001**

 MDR

27

84.4

70

52.2

0.001**

 Pre-XDR

7

21.9

23

17.2

0.534

 XDR

3

9.4

2

1.5

0.049**

  1. *p value from the Chi-square test
  2. **p < 0.05