Research Article
Monocyte Signal Transduction Receptors in Active and Latent Tuberculosis
Table 1
Characteristics of the groups in the study.
| Clinical characteristics | Participants | Patients | Healthy individuals | TB patients | NMLD patients | Household TB contacts | Work TB contacts | Controls |
| Total number of subjects | 43 | 46 | 41 | 48 | 46 | Mean age in years (range) | 48 (21–81) | 52 (19–85) | 38 (17–70) | 44 (29–60) | 47 (18–77) | Sex (no. (%) female) | 19 (44%) | 31 (67%) | 21 (51%) | 45 (93%) | 30 (65%) | Ethnicity | Caucasians | Caucasians | Caucasians | Caucasians | Caucasians | BCG vaccination (%) | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | Tobacco smoking (no. (%)) | 25 (58%) | 11 (23%) | 2 (13%) | 3 (12%) | 16 (34%) | Alcohol abuse (no. (%)) | 11 (25%) | 3 (6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | Smear+ and culture+ (%) | 100% | 0% | nd | nd | nd | IGRA result (no. (%)) | | | | | | Negative | 15 (35%) | 40 (86%) | 30 (73%) | 27 (56%) | 40 (87%) | Positive | 28 (65%) | 6 (14%) | 11 (27%) | 21 (44%) | 6 (13%) | TST result (no. (%)) | | | nd | nd | nd | Negative | 19 (44%) | 33 (72%) | Positive | 24 (56%) | 13 (28%) |
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