Table 1 Patients’ baseline socio-demographic, clinical and microbiological characteristics
Variables | No. (%) |
|---|---|
Patients enrolled in each PMDT site | |
Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar | 102 (47.9) |
Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital Rawalpindi | 43 (20.2) |
Nishter Hospital, Multan | 41 (19.2) |
Jinnah Hospital, Lahore | 8 (3.8) |
Saidu Teaching Hospital, Swat | 7 (3.3) |
District Head Quarter Hospital, Faisalabad | 7 (3.3) |
Sheikh Zaid Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan | 5 (2.3) |
Age (years) | |
< 5 | 14 (6.6) |
5–9 | 24 (11.3) |
10–14 | 175 (82.2) |
Gender | |
Female | 160 (75.1) |
Male | 53 (24.9) |
Baseline body weight | |
Normal | 96 (45.1) |
Below normal | 117 (54.9) |
History of TB treatment | |
No | 79 (37.1) |
Yes | 125 (58.7) |
Unknown | 9 (4.2) |
Previous TB treatment regimen | |
New patients | 79 (37.1) |
Category-I | 97 (45.5) |
Category-II | 28 (13.1) |
Unknown | 9 (4.2) |
Previous use of second line anti-TB drugs | |
No | 205 (96.2) |
Yes | 8 (3.8) |
Co-morbidity | |
No | 198 (93.0) |
Yes | 15 (7.0) |
Type of co-morbidity | |
Diabetes mellitus | 3 |
Depression | 11 |
Epilepsy | 1 |
Type of drug-resistant TB | |
Multidrug resistant TB | 129 (60.0) |
Rifampicin resistant TB | 84 (39.4) |
Site of disease | |
Pulmonary TB | 183 (85.9) |
Extra-pulmonary TB | 26 (12.2) |
Both | 4 (1.9) |
Baseline smear grading | |
Negative | 46 (21.6) |
Scanty (1–9 AFB/100 HPF) | 15 (7.0) |
+ 1 (10–99 AFB/100 HPF) | 76 (35.7) |
+ 2 (1–9 AFB/HPF) | 42 (19.7) |
+ 3 (> 9 AFB/100 HPF) | 34 (16.0) |