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Table 1 Patient diagnostic categories with respective to age group at EPHI/NTRL since 2015

From: Performance of Mycobacterium Growth Indicator Tube BACTEC 960 with Lowenstein–Jensen method for diagnosis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis at Ethiopian National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Age group

Category of patient

Total no. (%)

New patient

MDR-TB follow up patient

4–16

28 (3.1%)

21 (2.3%)

49 (5.4%)

17–29

127 (14%)

262 (28.9%)

389 (42.8%)

30–42

148 (16.3%)

160 (17.6%)

308 (33.9%)

43–55

62 (6.8%)

30 (3.3%)

92 (10%)

56–68

47 (5.2%)

9 (1%)

56 (6.2%)

69–80

11 (1.2%)

3 (0.3%)

14 (1.5%)

Total

423 (46.6%)

485 (53.4%)

908 (100%)