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Volume 20, Number 3—March 2014
Research

Minimal Diversity of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains, South Africa1

Neel R. GandhiComments to Author , James C.M. Brust, Prashini Moodley, Darren Weissman, Moonseong Heo, Yuming Ning, Anthony P. Moll, Gerald H. Friedland, A. Willem Sturm, and N. Sarita Shah
Author affiliations: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA (N.R. Gandhi, J.C.M. Brust, D. Weissman, M. Heo, Y. Ning, N.S. Shah); Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (N.R. Gandhi); Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (P. Moodley, A.W. Sturm); Philanjalo, Tugela Ferry, South Africa (A.P. Moll); Church of Scotland Hospital, Tugela Ferry (A.P. Moll); Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (G.H. Friedland)

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Table 3

Association of clinical factors and TB genotype with mortality based on Cox proportional hazards analysis, Tugela Ferry, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, 2005–2006*†

Category Unadjusted hazard ratio p value Adjusted hazard ratio p value
Spoligotype (ST) pattern Ref Ref –
ST60 (KZN) 2.78 <0.0001 0.14 0.60
ST34 (Québec) 2.48 0.002 0.65 0.07
ST1 (Beijing) 0.66 0.26 0.72 0.42
All other ST types
 Ref
Ref
DST group: drug-susceptible Ref Ref
MDR 3.37 <0.0001 3.33 <0.0001
XDR
 5.78
 <0.0001
 4.68
 <0.0001
Positive sputum smear 1.32 0.20
Extrapulmonary TB
1.67
 0.02
CD4 count
<50 cells/mm3 2.46 0.007
51–200 cells/mm3 1.41 0.30
>200 cells/mm3
 Ref
Ref
 –
Recent hospitalization 2.81 <0.0001

*Ref, referent; KZN, KwaZulu-Natal DST; drug susceptibility testing; MDR, multidrug-resistant, XDR, extensively drug resistant.
†If a patient had differing isolates on the same day, the less resistant of the 2 was used for these analyses. Results did not change when the more resistant isolate was used (data not shown).

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1Preliminary results from this study were presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference, May 15–20, 2009, San Diego, California, USA.

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