Clinical Study

Emergence of Haemophilus influenzae Strains in the Nasopharynx of Children with Tuberculosis

Table 1

Strains of H. influenzae isolated from patients with tuberculosis (Group 1) and children without tuberculosis (Gorup 2).

No patientsStrainsPatients with one strainPatients  withmultiple isolates

Group 1
(children with tuberculosis)
435126 (60.4%)17 (39.5%)
Group 2
(children without tuberculosis, control group)
182313 (18.57%)5 (7.1%)