QuantiFERON-TB Gold plus testing for the detection of LTBI among health care workers in major TB hospitals of the Northern Kyrgyz Republic

Table 2 Logistic regression results for differences between departments for the National Tuberculosis Centre (NTC), Karabalta, Karakol and Kemin combined, when controlling for age

Department	Number	QFT positive		OR	95% Confidence interval	P-value
Department	Number	n	%	OR	95% Confidence interval	P-value
Admin/monitoring	23	5	21.7%	Base
Surgery	55	28	50.9%	3.79	1.3–11.4	0.018*
Lab	39	26	66.7%	7.65	2.3–24.9	0.001*
Drug resistant TB	98	46	46.9%	2.82	0.995–8.0	0.051⁺
Outpatient clinic	26	14	53.8%	3.80	1.1–13.0	0.033*
Pediatrics	13	4	30.8%	1.32	0.3–5.8	0.71
Intensive care unit	11	5	45.5%	2.72	0.6–12.1	0.19
Smear positive TB	16	8	50.0%	2.92	0.7–11.4	0.12
Smear negative TB	21	13	61.9%	5.90	1.6–21.8	0.008*
General TB	82	31	37.8%	1.77	0.6–5.1	0.29
Engineering and technical staff	15	6	40.0%	2.03	0.5–8.1	0.32
Total	399

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