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Table 3 Clinical and demographic profile of patients with presumptive MDR-TB, District Bhopal, India (2014)a

From: High pre-diagnosis attrition among patients with presumptive MDR-TB: an operational research from Bhopal district, India

Variable

Patients with presumptive MDR-TB

Number

Percentage

Total

770

100

Age (years)

 • <14

7

1

 • 14-44

513

67

 • 45-64

203

27

 • ≥65

47

6

Gender

 • Male

520

68

 • Female

250

33

Health facility

 • Primary/Secondary level

362

47

 • District level

273

36

 • Medical college

135

18

Presumptive MDR-TB criteria

 • Previously treated TB

635

83

  ○ Recurrent

251

33

  ○ Treatment after Loss to follow up

51

7

  ○ Treatment after Failure

22

3

  ○ Others

311

40

 • Follow up smear positives

132

17

 • New patient with TB/HIV

3

0

 • New pulmonary TB withknown MDR-TB contact

0

0

Site of Tuberculosis

 • Extra pulmonary

89

12

 Pulmonary – smear negative

248

32

 • Pulmonary – smear positive

433

56

Quarter

 • January – March 2014

101

13

 • April – June 2014b

238

31

 • July – September 2014

223

29

 • October – December 2014

208

27

  1. a MDR-TB Multi drug-resistant tuberculosis, TB Tuberculosis, HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus bLPA was used as DST for smear positive patient; Cb-NAAT was introduced as DST for smear negative patient in quarter 2