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Volume 11, Number 8—August 2005
Research

Spoligotyping and Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Andrea Gori*Comments to Author , Alessandra Bandera*, Giulia Marchetti*, Anna Degli Esposti*, Lidia Catozzi*, Gian Piero Nardi*, Lidia Gazzola*, Giulio Ferrario*, Jan D.A. van Embden†, Dick van Soolingen†, Mauro Moroni*, and Fabio Franzetti*
Author affiliations: *University of Milan, Milan, Italy; †National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven, the Netherlands

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Table 1

Characteristics of 148 patients with acid-fast bacilli in biologic specimens*

Age, y
Median (range) 34 (3–88)
Mean 39.3
Sex, no. (%)
Male 105 (70.9)
Female 43 (29.1)
Type of patient, no. (%)
Infectious diseases 124 (83.8)
Pneumology 10 (6.8)
Internal medicine 10 (6.8)
Other 4 (2.7)
HIV status, no. (%)
Negative 52 (35.1)
Positive 96 (64.9)
CD4+ cell count/μL†
Median 47.5
Mean (range) 105 (1–589)
Previous tuberculosis, no. (%) 20 (13.5)
Previous MAC infection, no. (%)
10 (6.8)
No tuberculosis or MAC infection, no. (%) 118 (79.7)

*MAC, Mycobacterium avium complex.
†Data available for 90 of 96 HIV-infected patients.

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