Volume 20, Number 3—March 2014
CME ACTIVITY - Research
Use of Drug-Susceptibility Testing for Management of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Thailand, 2004–2008
Table 1
Baseline demographic characteristics for patients with drug-resistant TB, Thailand, 2004–2008*
Characteristic | Patients with RIF-resistant TB, n = 121 |
Patients with MDR TB, n = 369 |
Patients with RIF-resistant vs. MDR TB, p value‡ | ||||||
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Included, n = 36 | Excluded, n = 85 | P value† | Included, n = 172 | Excluded, n = 197 | P value† | ||||
Age, median (IQR), y | 42 (34–58) | 36 (29–48) | 0.02 | 39 (29–50) | 36 (28–47) | 0.11 | 0.10 | ||
Sex | |||||||||
M | 22 (61.1) | 55 (64.7) | 0.71 | 117 (68.0) | 128 (65.0) | 0.58 | 0.42 | ||
F | 14 (38.9) | 30 (35.3) | 55 (32.0) | 68 (34.5) | |||||
Data missing |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
1 (0.5) |
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Marital status | |||||||||
Married | 22 (61.1) | 39 (46.4) | 0.32 | 93 (54.1) | 85 (43.1) | 0.001 | 0.06 | ||
Single/divorced/widowed | 13 (36.1) | 43 (51.2) | 79 (45.9) | 98 (50.0) | |||||
Data missing |
1 (2.8) |
2 (2.4) |
0 (0.0) |
13 (6.6) |
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Nationality | |||||||||
Thai | 33 (91.7) | 76 (89.4) | 0.70 | 144 (83.7) | 170 (86.3) | 0.49 | 0.22 | ||
Not Thai | 3 (8.3) | 9 (10.6) | 28 (16.3) | 27 (13.7) |
*Patients were from the Thailand TB Active Surveillance Network and were either included or not included in the current study. Data are no. (%) unless otherwise indicated. TB, tuberculosis; RIF, rifampin; MDR, multidrug-resistance; IQR, interquartile range.
†p values reflect comparison between included and excluded patients in each TB drug resistance group.
‡p values reflect comparison between included RIF-resistant patients and MDR TB patients.