Volume 17, Number 7—July 2011
Dispatch
Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Southwestern Colombia
Beatriz E. Ferro
, Luisa Maria Nieto, Juan C. Rozo, Liliana Forero, and Dick van Soolingen
, Luisa Maria Nieto, Juan C. Rozo, Liliana Forero, and Dick van Soolingen
Table 2
Characteristics of patients infected with Beijing and non-Beijing isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, 2007–2008*
| Characteristic | No. (%) isolates |
OR (95% CI) | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing, n = 25 | Non-Beijing, n = 135 | |||
| Drug resistance profile | ||||
| MDR | 24 (96.0)† | 52 (38.5) | 38.31 (5.79–1,593.47) | <0.001 |
| Susceptible |
1 (4.0)‡ |
83 (61.5) |
||
| Sex | ||||
| F | 16 (64.0) | 51(37.8) | 2.93 (1.11–8.06) | 0.02 |
| M |
9 (36.0) |
84 (62.2) |
||
| Treatment status | ||||
| New | 13 (54.2) | 74 (56.5) | 0.91 (0.35–2.43) | 0.83 |
| Previously treated | 11 (45.8) | 57 (43.5) | ||
| Unknown |
1 (4.0) |
4 (2.1) |
||
| Age, y | ||||
| <30 | 14 (63.6) | 54 (42.9) | 2.33 (0.84–6.87) | 0.07 |
| >30 | 8 (36.4) | 72 (57.1) | ||
| Unknown |
3 (12.0) |
9 (6.6) |
||
| Place of residence | ||||
| Buenaventura | 23 (92.0) | 90 (66.7) | 5.75 (1.31–52.07) | 0.007 |
| Other cities | 2 (8.0) | 45 (33.3) | ||
*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; MDR, multidrug resistant.
†All were spoligo-international type (SIT) 190.
‡SIT 1.
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