Risk factor | Category | No | % |
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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 | 0Â mm | 65 | 54 |
1–10 mm | 34 | 28 |
>10Â mm | 22 | 18 |
Anthropometry | Normal | 43 | 36 |
Mild malnourished | 28 | 23 |
Moderate malnourished | 29 | 24 |
Severe malnourished | 21 | 17 |
- 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).