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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. GobbiComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Investigação em Sáude, Luanda, Angola (N.M. Francisco); IRCCS Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria, Negrar, Italy (A. Gaviraghi, F. Alladio, E. Salvador, G. Stroffolini, N. Ronzoni, P. Cattaneo, C. Castilletti, C. Mazzi, D. Buonfrate, F.G. Gobbi); IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Verona, Italy (R. Huits); Presidio Ospedale Santa Maria del Prato, Feltre, Italy (B. Carnielli); Hospital Divina Providencia, Luanda (A. Kalume); University of Brescia and Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital WHO Collaborating Centre for TB/HIV and TB Elimination, Brescia, Italy (A. Matteelli); University of Brescia, Brescia (F.G. Gobbi)

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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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