Volume 17, Number 3—March 2011
Dispatch
Molecular Epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ximena Gonzalo
, Marta Ambroggi, Ezequiel Cordova, Tim Brown, Susana Poggi, and Francis Drobniewski
, Marta Ambroggi, Ezequiel Cordova, Tim Brown, Susana Poggi, and Francis Drobniewski
Table
Demographic information for 157 patients in a study of the molecular epidemiology of TB, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 1, 2006–April 30, 2007*
| Demographic characteristic | Patients with MDR TB, n = 57, no. (%)† | Patients with non–MDR TB, n = 100, no. (%)‡ | p value, OR (95% CI)§ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sex | |||
| M | 35 (61) | 70 (70) | 0.271, 1.4667 (0.7404–2.9055) |
| F |
22 (39) |
30 (30) |
|
| Location | |||
| Buenos Aires area | 46 (81) | 95 (95) | 0.004, 4.5435 (1.491–13.845) |
| Other |
11 (19) |
5 (5) |
|
| Country of birth | |||
| Argentina | 43 (75) | 66 (66) | 0.2176, 0.632 (0.3041–1.3133) |
| Bolivia | 6 (11) | 20 (20) | |
| Peru | 7 (12) | 8 (8) | |
| Paraguay | 0 | 3 (3) | |
| Uruguay | 1 (2) | 1 (1) | |
| Chile | 0 | 1 (1) | |
| Missing data |
0 |
1 (1) |
|
| Education | |||
| Illiterate or some primary | 16 (28) | 32 (32) | 0.2059, 0.5185 (0.1860–1.4456) |
| Some secondary or tertiary | 7 (12) | 27 (27) | |
| Missing data |
34 (59) |
41 (41) |
|
| Occupation | |||
| Unemployed | 7 (12) | ||
| Construction and manual worker | 20 (35) | ||
| Factory worker | 4 (7) | 14 (14) | |
| Health care worker | 1 (2) | 1 (1) | |
| Education, i.e., student and teacher | 2 (4) | 4 (4) | |
| Housewife | 6 (11) | 5 (5) | |
| Missing data |
17 (30) |
23 (23) |
|
| HIV infection | |||
| Positive | 25 (44) | 27 (27) | 0.04, 0.4737 (0.2308–0.9722) |
| Negative | 25 (44) | 57 (57) | |
| Missing data |
7 (12) |
16 (16) |
|
| Nature of TB contact | |||
| Close (i.e., household, family, co-worker) | 10 (18) | 32 (32) | |
| Institution (i.e., hospital, prison) | 2 (4) | 3 (3) | |
| Casual (e.g., acquaintance) | 5 (9) | 3 (3) | |
| Missing data |
40 (70) |
62 (62) |
|
| TB presentation | |||
| Pulmonary | 36 (63) | 61 (61) | 0.7184, 1.1553 (0.5323–2.5073) |
| Nonpulmonary | 15 (26) | 22 (22) | |
| Missing data | 6 (11) | 17 (17) |
*TB, tuberculosis; MDR, multidrug resistant; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; IQR, interquartile range.
†Median age, y (IQR) for patients with MDR TB: 34 (27–40).
‡Median age, y (IQR) for patients with non-MDR TB: 28.5 (23.0–37.0).
§χ2 test.
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