Suitability of saliva for Tuberculosis diagnosis: comparing with serum

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 1 Participant characteristics

Variable	All	PTB	No TB
Variable	All	PTB	LTBI	Uninfected
No. of participants	78	39	21	18
Female	41(53%)	17(22%)	11 (14%)	13 (17%)
HIV positive %	13 (17%)	5 (6%)	2 (3%)	6 (8%)
QFT positive	57 (73%)	36 (46%)	21 (27%)	0
Abnormal X-ray	42 (54%)	34 (44%)	7 (9%)	1 (1%)

Table 1: The distribution of study participants according to their sputum MGIT culture, Quantiferon and X-ray results is shown. All the TB patients were MGIT positive. No TB cases (all MGIT negative) were further classified as LTBI or uninfected individuals based on Quantiferon In Tube results. LTBI latent TB infection, PTB active pulmonary TB disease

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