Active Tuberculosis Case Finding in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Experiences, Results, and Implications for Tuberculosis Control Programs

Table 3

Demographics and sputum characteristics of 108 patients with pulmonary TB.

	Smear+	Smear−
	(%)	(%)
Patient demographics
Male	30/66 (45)	20/44 (45)
Age > 30 years	25/59 (42)	32/44 (73)
HIV infection	15/65 (23)	26/43 (60)
Verbal screening results
Cough	52/52 (100)	20/30 (67)
Fever	24/33 (73)	14/27 (52)
Hemoptysis	5/33 (15)	6/27 (22)
Weight loss	22/33 (67)	20/27 (75)
Night sweats	9/33 (27)	10/27 (37)
2 symptoms (excluding cough)	20/33 (61)	16/27 (59)
Composite sputum characteristics
Saliva	12/66 (18)	21/42 (50)
Mucous	52/66 (79)	21/42 (50)
Sanguineous	2/66 (3)	0
Composite smear grade		NA
Scanty	17/66 (26)
1+	11/66 (17)
2+	4/66 (6)
3+	34/66 (52)

: number of subjects with available data; : number of subjects with characteristic.