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Volume 31, Number 3—March 2025
Research Letter
Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a Community Hospital, Luanda, Angola
Ngiambudulu M. Francisco, Alberto Gaviraghi, Francesca Alladio, Ralph Huits, Bruna Carnielli, Elena Salvador, Giacomo Stroffolini, Niccolò Ronzoni, Paolo Cattaneo, Concetta Castilletti, Alberto Kalume, Cristina Mazzi, Alberto Matteelli, Dora Buonfrate, and Federico G. Gobbi
Table 2
Multivariable logistic regression models evaluating risk factors for RR and MDR TB, Luanda, Angola*
| Characteristic | RR TB |
MDR TB |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR (95% CI) | p value | OR (95% CI) | p value | ||
| Age |
1 ((0.97–1.03) |
0.8 |
1.02 ((0.98–1.06) |
0.4 |
|
| Sex | |||||
| M | Referent | Referent | |||
| F |
0.59 (0.27–1.25) |
0.2 |
0.39 (0.13–1.07) |
0.075 |
|
| Body mass index |
0.96 (0.84–1.08) |
0.5 |
0.91 (0.75–1.07) |
0.3 |
|
| Smoking | |||||
| N | Referent | Referent | |||
| Y |
0.84 (0.22–2.63) |
0.8 |
0.44 (0.02–2.85) |
0.5 |
|
| Alcohol | |||||
| N | Referent | Referent | |||
| Y |
1.01 (0.38–2.46) |
>0.9 |
0.85 (0.18–3.01) |
0.8 |
|
| HIV | |||||
| Negative | Referent | Referent | |||
| Positive | 1.16 (0.26–3.76) | 0.8 | 0.57 (0.03–3.23) | 0.6 | |
*MDR, multidrug-resistant; OR, odds ratio; RR, rifampin-resistant; TB, tuberculosis.
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