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Table 1 Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with sensible and DR-TB from Veracruz city, Mexico

From: Genetic diversity and drug susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a city with a high prevalence of drug resistant tuberculosis from Southeast of Mexico

Variable

Total

n = 202 (%)

Sensible-TB

n = 141 (%)

DR-TB

n = 61 (%)

Fisher exact test

p

P*

Sex

Male

139 (68)

93 (65)

46 (75)

0.246

0.184

0.245

 

Female

63 (32)

48 (34)

15 (25)

Age (years)

Mean ± SD

42 ± 15

43 ± 16

42 ± 14

0.743

0.743

0.871

 

 ≥ 35

139 (68)

98 (70)

41 (67)

 

 < 35

63 (32)

43 (30)

20 (33)

Alcoholism

Yes

17 (8)

14 (10)

3 (5)

0.405

0.255

0.390

 

No

185 (92)

127 (90)

58 (95)

   

T2DM comorbidity

Yes

42 (21)

34 (24)

8 (13)

0.128

0.089

0.131

 

No

160 (79)

107 (52)

53 (87)

   

HIV comorbidity

Yes

2 (1)

1 (0.5)

1 (0.5)

0.506

0.527

0.883

 

No

200 (99)

140 (99.5)

60 (99.5)

   
  1. *Yates’s correction