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Volume 15, Number 7—July 2009
Research

Relapse Associated with Active Disease Caused by Beijing Strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis1

William J. BurmanComments to Author , Erin E. Bliven, Lauren S. Cowan, Lorna Bozeman, Payam Nahid, Lois Diem, Andrew Vernon, and for the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium
Author affiliations: Denver Public Health, Denver Colorado, USA (W.J. Burman); University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center, Denver (W.J. Burman); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (E.E. Bliven, L. Cowan, L. Bozeman, L. Diem, A. Vernon); The University of California, San Francisco, California, USA (P. Nahid)

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Table 4

Association between active disease caused by a Beijing genotype of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and relapse, by race/ethnic background, Tuberculosis Trials Consortium Study 22*

Race/ethnicity Patients with disease that relapsed
 Relapse 
odds ratio (95% CI) p value
Infected with a Beijing strain, no. positive/no. tested (%) Not infected with a Beijing strain, no. positive/no. tested (%)
Non-Hispanic white (n = 63) 3/11 (27) 17/52 (33) 0.8 (0.2–3.3) 0.73
Non-Hispanic black (n = 148) 6/22 (27) 15/126 (12) 2.8 (0.9–8.2) 0.06
Hispanic (n = 79) 1/7 (14) 7/72 (9.7) 1.5 (0.2–15) 0.70
Asian–Pacific Islander (n = 50) 4/16 (25) 1/34 (2.9) 11 (1.1–108) 0.04

*The Tuberculosis Trials Consortium Study enrolled patients during 1995–1998. Participants in the case–control study were selected from among 1,004 HIV-infected participants. Participants of Native American race/ethnicity (n = 12) were not included because none were infected with a Beijing strain; 2 Native American participants had disease that relapsed. CI, confidence interval.

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1This study was presented in part at the 2008 International Conference of the American Thoracic Society, May 16–21, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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