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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants at enrollment

From: Diagnostic accuracy of a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry assay in small hair samples for rifampin-resistant tuberculosis drug concentrations in a routine care setting

Characteristic

MDR/XDR-TB cohort (primary)

Female sex — no./total no. (%)

56/57 (98%)

Median age (range) — yr

33 (22–58)

Time from most recent diagnosis to small hair sample collection (median, IQR) — days

144 (50–337)

Drug-resistance status — no./total no. (%)

 Pre-XDR/XDR-TB

36/57 (63%)

 MDR-TB

16/57 (28%)

 Poly-resistance

1/57 (2%)

 RR-TB

4/57 (7%)

Treatment Outcome — no./total no. (%)

 Loss to follow-up

14/57 (25%)

 Treatment failure

6/57 (11%)

 Relapse

3/57 (5%)

 Continuing Treatment

18/57 (32%)

 Cure

15/57 (26%)

 Complete

1/57 (2%)