Research Article
Treatment Outcome of Tuberculosis Patients at Enfraz Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia: A Five-Year Retrospective Study
Table 1
Characteristics of TB patients with types of TB at DOTS clinic of Enfraz health center, 2007–2011.
| | Characteristics | Total | Type of TB | |
Smear-positive | Smear-negative | EPTB |
| | Sex | | | | | | Male | 199 (47.7)* | 41 (20.6) | 74 (37.2) | 84 (42.2) | | Female | 218 (52.3) | 54 (24.8) | 67 (30.7) | 97 (44.5) | | Residence | | | | | | Urban | 147 (35.3) | 33 (22.4) | 55 (37.4) | 59 (40.1) | | Rural | 270 (64.7) | 62 (23.0) | 86 (31.9) | 122 (45.2) | | Age (years) | | | | | | ≤14 | 61 (14.6) | 3 (4.9) | 29 (47.5) | 29 (47.5) | | 15–24 | 78 (18.7) | 19 (24.4) | 18 (23.1) | 41 (52.6) | | 25–34 | 112 (26.9) | 34 (30.4) | 25 (22.3) | 53 (47.3) | | 35–44 | 70 (16.8) | 19 (27.1) | 31 (44.3) | 20 (28.6) | | 45–54 | 45 (10.8) | 14 (31.1) | 17 (37.8) | 14 (31.1) | | 55–64 | 30 (7.2) | 3 (10.0) | 14 (46.7) | 13 (43.3) | | ≥65 | 21 (5.0) | 3 (14.3) | 7 (33.3) | 11 (52.4) | | HIV test | | | | | | Negative | 182 (43.6) | 39 (21.4) | 65 (35.7) | 78 (42.9) | | Positive | 24 (5.8) | 10 (41.7) | 9 (37.5) | 5 (20.8) | | Unknown | 200 (48.0) | 45 (22.5) | 62 (31.0) | 93 (46.5) | | Refused to test | 11 (2.6) | 1 (9.1) | 5 (45.5) | 5 (45.5) |
| | Total | 417 (100) | 95 (22.8) | 141 (33.8) | 181 (43.4) |
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Figures in parenthesis indicate percentage, EPTB: extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
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