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Table 1 Clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of consecutively enrolled childhood TB suspects visiting Jimma University Hospital, 2011 (n = 121)

From: Genotype diversity of Mycobacterium isolates from children in Jimma, Ethiopia

Risk factor

Category

No

%

Age (in year)

1–5

52

43

6–10

46

38

11–15

23

19

Sex

Male

69

57

Female

52

43

Contact history

Yes

67

55

No

54

45

Fever

Yes

98

81

No

23

19

Night sweats

Yes

103

85

No

18

15

HIV

Reactive

15

12

Non-reactive

106

88

Tuberculin skin test

0 mm

65

54

1–10 mm

34

28

>10 mm

22

18

Anthropometry

Normal

43

36

Mild malnourished

28

23

Moderate malnourished

29

24

Severe malnourished

21

17

  1. All participants in the study had cough of greater than 2 weeks of duration. The sign and symptom complex was defined as: night sweats, sweating that leads to wetting of the bed sheet; fever, body temperature of >37.5°C; close contact, living in the same household as, or in frequent contact with, a source case with sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB or clinically diagnosed TB; and anthropometry were based on weight, height/length and mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) measurements and classification of acute malnutrition is according to Waterlow scheme (weight for height (W/H) (not malnourished, W/H >90 percent of reference median; mild malnutrition, W/H 80–90 percent of reference median; moderate acute malnutrition, W/H 70–80 percent of reference median; and severe acute malnutrition, W/H <70 percent of reference median).