Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 associated with cavitations and treatment failure

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 6 Characteristics associated with the presence of cavitations in chest radiographs of patients with pulmonary TB in Orizaba, Veracruz, 1997–2010 (n = 626)

Variables	aOR	95% CI		p-value*
Variables	aOR	L.I	U.I	p-value*
Sex (male)	0.781	0.529	1.152	0.212
Age (years)	1.003	0.993	1.013	0.573
Used alcohol	1.528	1.041	2.243	0.030
Diabetes mellitus type 2	1.625	1.130	2.337	0.009
AFB sputum positivity grade of 3+	2.198	1.524	3.168	< 0.001
Lineage
Haarlem	Reference
LAM	1.545	1.023	2.333	0.039
Other than Haarlem and LAM	0.806	0.537	1.210	0.298

aOR, adjusted odds ratio; MDR, multidrug resistance; L.I, lower interval; U.I, upper interval
*Adjusted logistic regression

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