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Table 3 Patient characteristics, admission diagnosis and presence of TB symptoms amongst the 10 detected bacteriological confirmed TB cases

From: Missed pulmonary tuberculosis: a cross sectional study in the general medical inpatient wards of a large referral hospital in Ethiopia

s/n

Age

Sex

BMI

HIV test

Admission diagnosis

TB symptoms

Smear result

Xpert result

1

22y

F

20.9

neg

CAP

Cough 1mth, fever, wt loss

neg

+ve

2

21y

F

20.0

U

Severe CAP

Cough 3wks, fever, night sweat

neg

+ve

3

26y

F

18.6

+ve

WHO Stage 4 RVI

Cough 2wks, fever, wt loss

neg

+ve

4

55y

M

21.0

U

Severe anemia

Cough 2wks, chest pain, wt loss

neg

+ve

5

22y

M

18.2

neg

IHD

Cough 2wks, fever

+ve

+ve

6

32y

M

20.3

U

Pneumonia

Cough 2wks, fever, wt loss

+ve

+ve

7

33y

M

20.5

+ve

WHO Stage 4 RVI

Cough 2wks, fever, wt loss, contact hx

+ve

+ve

8

23y

M

20.3

+ve

RVI

Cough 2wks, chest pain, fever, night sweat

+ve

+ve

9

31y

M

19.1

+ve

RVI

Cough 3wks, fever, night sweat

neg

+ve

10

41y

M

18.4

neg

Diabetes M

Cough 2wks, chest pain, fever, night sweat, wt loss

neg

+ve

  1. BMI Body Mass Index, neg negative, +ve positive, U unknown, CAP Community Acquired Pneumonia, RVI Retroviral Illness (HIV/AIDS), IHD Ischemic Heart Disease, wt weight, hx history, WHO World Health Organization