Research Article
Clustering of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cases in Acapulco: Spoligotyping and Risk Factors
Table 3
Characteristics of the pulmonary TB case series in Acapulco.
| Variable | | % |
| Sex
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| | | Male | 190 | 63.3 | Female | 110 | 36.7 | Age (in years)** | | | 15–24 | 51 | 17 | 26–34 | 72 | 24 | 35–44 | 58 | 19.3 | 45–54 | 55 | 18.3 | 55–64 | 40 | 13.3 | 65 + | 24 | 8 | Signs and symptoms | | | Duration of the cough >3 months** | 192 | 64 | Lost weight** | 271 | 90.3 | Fever** | 227 | 75.7 | Hemoptysis** | 151 | 50.3 | Associated illness** | 132 | 44 | Type of associated illness
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(n = 132) | | | Diabetes | 77 | 58.3 | Drug user | 20 | 15.2 | AIDS | 12 | 9.1 | Alcoholism | 7 | 5.3 | Undernutrition | 3 | 2.3 | Others | 13 | 9.8 | Prior TB
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| 26 | 8.7 | Husband/wife with prior TB
**
(n = 190) | 22 | 11.6 | Recent contact with someone with TB
**
| | | Yes | 112 | 37.3 | No | 150 | 50 | Do not know | 37 | 12.3 | Indigenous** | 27 | 9 | Indigenous group** (n = 27) | | | Náhuatl | 16 | 59.3 | Mixteco | 9 | 33.3 | Amuzgo | 2 | 7.4 | State of birth
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| | | Guerrero | 272 | 90.7 | Oaxaca | 11 | 3.7 | Estado de México | 4 | 1.3 | Michoacán | 3 | 1 | Other state | 10 | 3.3 | Region of birth
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(n = 272) | | | Acapulco | 150 | 55.1 | Zone Centro | 25 | 9.2 | La Montaña | 7 | 2.6 | Costa Chica | 46 | 16.9 | Costa Grande | 21 | 7.7 | Zone Norte | 8 | 2.9 | Tierra Caliente | 12 | 4.4 |
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